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Reconsidering subjectification from the perspective of animal signalling 从动物信号的角度重新思考主体化

Tracking Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary, Cross-Theoretical Enterprise Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.1075/elt.00020.rit

Nikolaus Ritt, Andreas Baumann, Eva Zehentner, Alexander Zöpfl

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What are the determinants of survival curves of words? 单词生存曲线的决定因素是什么?

Tracking Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary, Cross-Theoretical Enterprise Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.1075/elt.00019.vel

F. Velde, Alek Keersmaekers

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Co-evolution of internalization and externalization in the emergence of the human lexicon 人类词汇产生过程中内化与外化的共同进化

Tracking Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary, Cross-Theoretical Enterprise Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.1075/elt.00022.fuj

Haruka Fujita

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