Kinship categories across languages reflect general communicative principles

Science

Volumn 336, Issue 6084, 2012, Pages 1049-1054

  Kemp, Charles ^a   Regier, Terry ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; KINSHIP; LANGUAGE; TRADE-OFF;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COST; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KIN SELECTION; LANGUAGE; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84861423823     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1218811     Document Type: Article

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