Journal of Language Evolution

Social centrality differentiation shapes the dynamics of linguistic diffusion Get access

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Is phoneme inventory size influenced by speaker population size and isolation?

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Correction to: The career of metaphor in pantomime: a motion-capture study of the conventionalization of metaphor

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Variation in language phylogenies may result from variation in concept translation

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Population-level linguistic conventionality benefits the robustness, learnability, and cognitive efficiency of emergent languages

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The career of metaphor in pantomime: a motion-capture study of the conventionalization of metaphor

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The evolutionary dynamics of ergative alignment of case marking

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Short words are more likely to refer to multiple meanings across 192 language families Get access

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Phylogenetic inference from cognate word forms

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Noise, time, and signal reduction in a laboratory communication game Get access

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Get data early, get data often, iterate constantly: an explorative, participatory approach to studying language evolution

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Discrete and systematic communication in a continuous signal-meaning space Get access

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The arena of language evolution: the emergence of symbolic referential signals in a common task framework

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Phylogenetic ancestral state reconstruction of bilabial trills in the languages of Malekula Island (Vanuatu), and the historical evolution of rare sound changes

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Combined lexical and phonotactic data resolve uncertainties in the evolutionary diversification of the Japonic language family

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A focus on vowels in young human infants and animals: early sensitivities in language processing Get access

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A sea of languages: predicting the number of languages per island group in Remote Oceania

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Cultural evolution via iterated learning and communication explains efficient color naming systems

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A phylogenetic study of South-Western Tibetic

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