Language evolution in the laboratory

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 411-417

  Scott Phillips, Thomas C ^a   Kirby, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE CAPACITY; INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; LANGUAGE EVOLUTION; LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA; NATURAL LANGUAGES;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

LINGUISTICS;

BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; POPULATION; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; CULTURE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING; PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL;

EID: 77956012091     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.06.006     Document Type: Review

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