New approach to testing ancestral links between language families
A new study shows that word-initial consonants are systematically lengthened across a diverse sample of languages
Linguistic analysis provides insight into the vocabularies for body parts in more than a thousand languages
New research shows that environmental barriers have influenced the spread of cultural innovations but do not consistently favour Eurasia
A new study shows that changes in grammatical complexity are not shaped by social environments
Linguistics and genetics combine to suggest a new hybrid hypothesis for the origin of the Indo-European languages
Genetic analysis adds new perspectives on the (pre)history of South America - from the first settlement until today
Geochemical analyses of stone artefacts reveal long-distance voyaging among Pacific Islands during the last millennium
An international team has created a new database that documents patterns of grammatical variation in over 2400 of the world’s languages
Data from 124 societies shows that dogs’ functions predict their treatment, with closer bonds forming in societies where dogs have multiple roles
GeLaTo, a global database, helps to explore the complex history of our genes and languages
A recent linguistic study found that early Bantu speakers crossed through the dense Central African Rainforest 4,000 years ago
Linguists and computer scientists collaborate to publish a large global Open Access lexical database
An ERC Consolidator Grant was awarded to Johann-Mattis List, a research group leader in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max…
A new study in Behavior Research Methods by a team of researchers in Germany presents the Database of Cross-Linguistic Norms, Ratings, and Relations…
The QUANTA project is the first concerted effort to address the ambitious questions of when, why, and how tools for quantification emerged and evolved
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