Social Network Limits Language Complexity

Natural languages vary widely in the degree to which they make use of nested compositional structure in their grammars. It has long been noted by linguists that the languages historically spoken in small communities develop much deeper levels of compositional embedding than those spoken by larger gr...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Cognitive science 2018-11, Vol.42 (8), p.2790-2817
Hauptverfasser:	Lou‐Magnuson, Matthew, Onnis, Luca
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Agent‐based model Cultural Evolution Embedding Grammaticalization Humans Language Language change Language complexity Language evolution Linguistics Pattern formation Social network Social Networking Social networks Social organization Statistical analysis
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