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Individual Biases, Cultural Evolution, and the Statistical Nature of Language Universals: The Case of Colour Naming Systems
Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto, Andrea Puglisi
Language universals have long been attributed to an innate Universal Grammar. An alternative explanation states that linguistic universals emerged independently in every language i…
Aging in language dynamics
Animesh Mukherjee, Francesca Tria, Andrea Baronchelli +2
Human languages evolve continuously, and a puzzling problem is how to reconcile the apparent robustness of most of the deep linguistic structures we use with the evidence that they…
Modeling the emergence of universality in color naming patterns
Andrea Baronchelli, Tao Gong, Andrea Puglisi +1
The empirical evidence that human color categorization exhibits some universal patterns beyond superficial discrepancies across different cultures is a major breakthrough in cognit…
Cultural route to the emergence of linguistic categories
Andrea Puglisi, Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto
Categories provide a coarse grained description of the world. A fundamental question is whether categories simply mirror an underlying structure of nature, or instead come from the…