Pleyer, Michael; Neels, Jakob; Hartmann, Stefan(The Evolution of Language Conferences, 2024)
This paper discusses how concepts from usage-based linguistics can prove fruitful in investigating the evolution of language. In particular, we focus on recent developments in usage-based approaches to language and the ...
Pleyer, Michael; Karkowska, Klaudia; Kuleshova, Svetlana; Namednikava, Darya; Placiński, Marek(The Evolution of Language Conferences, 2024)
Metaphoric meaning extension is a central process in language evolution and historical language change. Here, we propose a computational method to further investigate the processes of metaphoric extension central to language ...
The cooperative nature of human communication is widely accepted as a fact at least since Grice. In this study, we investigate whether a form of linguistic cooperation – structural alignment – correlates with cooperative ...
Matzinger, Theresa; Pleyer, Michael; Zhang, Elizabeth Qing; Żywiczyński, Przemysław(The Evolution of Language Conferences, 2024)
Language and cooperation are tightly linked aspects of human interaction, with language serving as a tool to assess potential cooperation partners. We propose that inter-turn speech pauses, which have essential ...
Kuleshova, Svetlana; Zhang, Elizabeth Qing; Pleyer, Michael(The Evolution of Language Conferences, 2024)
Metaphor is central to human language and cognition. It has also been proposed to play an important role in language evolution. For these reasons, the evolution of metaphor and the cognitive processes supporting it are an ...