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2010
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In numerous experimental contexts, gesturing has been shown to lighten a speaker's cognitive load. However, in all of these experimental paradigms, the gestures have been dir...
COGSCI
2010
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People are remarkably smart: They use language, possess complex motor skills, make nontrivial inferences, develop and use scientific theories, make laws, and adapt to complex dyna...
COGSCI
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Recent research suggests that language evolution is a process of cultural change, in which linguistic structures are shaped through repeated cycles of learning and use by domain-g...
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2010
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A well-established principle of language is that there is a preference for closely related words to be close together in the sentence. This can be expressed as a preference for de...
COGSCI
2010
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2010
The contributions to this special issue on cognitive development collectively propose ways in which learning involves developing constraints that shape subsequent learning. A lear...