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Humans recognize emotional arousal in vocalizations across all classes of terrestrial vertebrates: Evidence for acoustic universals
emotional arousal language evolution vocal communication
2017/8/28
Writing over a century ago, Darwin hypothesized that vocal expression of emotion dates back to our earliest terrestrial ancestors. If this hypothesis is true, we should expect to find cross-species ac...
From Domains Towards a Logic of Universals: A Small Calculus for the Continuous Determination of Worlds
Logic Aristotelian logic Domain Theory Computability Data-types Modes of being Universals Topological Information Storage Problem of Induction
2015/7/15
At the end of the 19th century, 'logic' moved from the discipline of philosophy to that of mathematics. One hundred years later, we have a plethora of formal logics. Looking at the situation form info...
Proponents of a self-identified ‘relativist’ view of cross-language color naming have confounded two questions: (1) Is color naming largely subject to local linguistic convention? and (2) Are cross-la...
The existence of cross-linguistic universals in color naming is currently contested. Early empirical studies, based principally on languages of industrialized societies, suggested that all languages m...
Universals constrain change;change results in typological generalizations
Universals constrain change change results typological generalizations
2015/6/11
If language change is constrained by grammatical structure, then synchronic assumptions have diachronic consequences. Theories of grammar can then in principle contribute to explaining properties of c...
Cross-Cultural Universals and Communication Structures
Cross-Cultural Universals Communication Structures
2015/4/27
Given the diversity of languages, it is unlikely that the human capacity for language resides in rich universal syntactic machinery. More likely, it resides centrally in the capacity for vocal learnin...
Universals and variation in spatial language and cognition: Evidence from Chichewa
language and cognition Universals and variation
2015/4/10
The relation of spatial language and spatial cognition is central to the debate over language and thought.
Recent findings move this debate beyond the standard opposition between universalist a...
Time for a sea-change in linguistics: Response to comments on ‘The Myth of Language Universals’
Language universals Universal grammar Linguistic typology Linguistic diversity Coevolution Descriptive linguistics Theoretical linguistics Language evolution Linguistic variation
2015/4/8
This paper argues that the language sciences are on the brink of major changes in primary data, methods and theory. Reactions to ‘The myth of language universals’ (Evans and Levinson, 2009a,b) divide ...
The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science
Chomsky coevolution constituency culture dependency evolutionary theory Greenberg linguistic diversity linguistic typology recursion universal grammar
2015/4/7
Talk of linguistic universals has given cognitive scientists the impression that languages are all built to a common pattern. In fact, there are vanishingly few universals of language in the direct se...
Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation
Universals and cultural variation turn-taking in conversation
2015/4/7
Informal verbal interaction is the core matrix for human social life. A mechanism for coordinating this basic mode of interaction is a system of turn-taking that regulates who is to speak and when. Ye...
Linking Meaning to Language: Linguistic Universals and Variation
syntax semantics linking UTAH universal grammar over-hypotheses
2014/9/4
To use natural language, speakers must map the participants in eventsor states in the world onto grammaticalroles. There remains considerable disagreement about the nature of these so-called linking r...
A frequentist explanation of some universals of reflexive marking
frequentist explanation reflexive marking
2009/8/4
This paper identifies a number of empirically observable universals of reflexive marking that
concern the existence of a special reflexive pronoun and the length of the marker that is used
in refl...
On Universals: An extensionalist alternative to Quine's resemblance theory
Universals resemblance sparse properties
2008/4/22
The notion of similarity plays a central role in Quine's theory of Universals and it is with the help of this notion that Quine intends to define the concept of kind which also plays a central role in...
In this paper I explore the logical relationship between the question of the reality of qualia and the problem of universals. I argue that nominalism is inconsistent with the existence of qualia, and ...
Semantic universals and typology.