Functional Universals

Functional Bases of Phonological Universals: A Connectionist Approach

Functional representations and universals for MV- and GMV-algebras

We represent every normal-valued GMV-algebra as a GMV-algebra of real-valued functions; we also describe the universal MV-algebras and universal normal-valued GMV-algebras with a prescribed set of components.

produce cultural universals Anna

Looking across human societies reveals regularities in the languages that people speak and the concepts that they use. One explanation that has been proposed for these “cultural universals” is differences in the ease with which people learn particular languages and concepts. A difference in learnability means that languages and concepts possessing a particular property are more likely to be acc...

Language universals at birth.

The evolution of human languages is driven both by primitive biases present in the human sensorimotor systems and by cultural transmission among speakers. However, whether the design of the language faculty is further shaped by linguistic biological biases remains controversial. To address this question, we used near-infrared spectroscopy to examine whether the brain activity of neonates is sen...

Linguistic diversity and universals