# Language and cultural evolution

**Type:** Topics  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/topics/language-and-cultural-evolution/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Description | This cluster of papers explores the evolutionary dynamics of cultural evolution, with a focus on language development, social learning strategies, phylogenetics, and the impact of culture on human adaptation. It delves into topics such as cumulative culture, semantic change, linguistic diversity, and the grounding of symbols in language. The papers also discuss the role of cultural evolution in shaping human intelligence and behavior. |
| Domain | Social Sciences |
| Field | Social Sciences |
| OpenAlex ID | t12090 |
| Works | 17 |

## Topic papers all

Showing 15 of 17.

- [Computing the Meanings of Words in Reading: Cooperative Division of Labor Between Visual and Phonological Processes.](https://scholariq.org/papers/computing-the-meanings-of-words-in-reading-cooperative-division-of-labor-between/)
- [The brain differentiates human and non-human grammars: Functional localization and structural connectivity](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-brain-differentiates-human-and-non-human-grammars-functional-localization/)
- [The Word Frequency Effect](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-word-frequency-effect/)
- [Concept Representation Reflects Multimodal Abstraction: A Framework for Embodied Semantics](https://scholariq.org/papers/concept-representation-reflects-multimodal-abstraction-a-framework-for-embodied/)
- [Short Arms and Talking Eggs: Why We Should No Longer Abide the Nativist–Empiricist Debate](https://scholariq.org/papers/short-arms-and-talking-eggs-why-we-should-no-longer-abide-the-nativist/)
- [The role of talker-specific information in word segmentation by infants.](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-role-of-talker-specific-information-in-word-segmentation-by-infants-2/)
- [Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures](https://scholariq.org/papers/acoustic-regularities-in-infant-directed-speech-and-song-across-cultures/)
- [Linguistic entrenchment: Prior knowledge impacts statistical learning performance](https://scholariq.org/papers/linguistic-entrenchment-prior-knowledge-impacts-statistical-learning-performance/)
- [The Talking Neanderthals: What Do Fossils, Genetics, and Archeology Say?](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-talking-neanderthals-what-do-fossils-genetics-and-archeology-say/)
- [Comparison promotes learning and transfer of relational categories.](https://scholariq.org/papers/comparison-promotes-learning-and-transfer-of-relational-categories/)
- [Modeling language and cognition with deep unsupervised learning: a tutorial overview](https://scholariq.org/papers/modeling-language-and-cognition-with-deep-unsupervised-learning-a-tutorial/)
- [Letter perception emerges from unsupervised deep learning and recycling of natural image features](https://scholariq.org/papers/letter-perception-emerges-from-unsupervised-deep-learning-and-recycling-of/)
- [Comparing the temporal dynamics of thematic and taxonomic processing using event-related potentials](https://scholariq.org/papers/comparing-the-temporal-dynamics-of-thematic-and-taxonomic-processing-using-event/)
- [Emotion in Cultural Dynamics](https://scholariq.org/papers/emotion-in-cultural-dynamics/)
- [AI Nüshu: An Exploration of Language Emergence in Sisterhood Through the Lens of Computational Linguistics](https://scholariq.org/papers/ai-nushu-an-exploration-of-language-emergence-in-sisterhood-through-the-lens-of/)

## Topic primary papers

- [The Talking Neanderthals: What Do Fossils, Genetics, and Archeology Say?](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-talking-neanderthals-what-do-fossils-genetics-and-archeology-say/)
- [Letter perception emerges from unsupervised deep learning and recycling of natural image features](https://scholariq.org/papers/letter-perception-emerges-from-unsupervised-deep-learning-and-recycling-of/)

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