27.977, TOC: Journal of Language Evolution 1/1 (2016)

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:50:06
From: Carolyn Napolitano [Carolyn.Napolitano at oup.com]
Subject: Journal of Language Evolution Vol. 1, No. 1 (2016)

 
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
			http://www.oup.com/us 
			
Journal Title:  Journal of Language Evolution 
Volume Number:  1 
Issue Number:  1 
Issue Date:  2016 


Main Text:  

The new Journal of Language Evolution aims to be the venue of choice for
language evolution research. It is highly interdisciplinary and covers
theoretical, computational, database-driven, and experimental work emerging
from linguistics, (neuro-)cognitive sciences, psychology, anthropology,
biology, evolutionary theory, computer sciences, philosophy, and other
relevant disciplines.

Volume 1 issue 1 is now available and all content is free to read and
download.
Sign up for email alerts at https://jole.oxfordjournals.org/alerts 
Contents (available at http://bit.ly/1QdQILW): 

Editorial 

Language evolution needs its own journal - http://bit.ly/1oZWB5d 
By Dan Dediu and Bart de Boer 

How-to

How to analyze linguistic change using mixed models, Growth Curve Analysis and
Generalized Additive Modeling - http://bit.ly/20Sks2l 
By Bodo Winter and Martin Wieling

Introduction

Linguistic diversity and language evolution – http://bit.ly/1QdVg4Q 
By Harald Hammarström

Target Article (Including overview, commentaries, and response)

Language evolution and climate: the case of desiccation and tone -
http://bit.ly/21ndPY0 
Article by Caleb Everett, Damián E. Blasí, and Seán G. Roberts. 

Overview by Simon J. Greenhill - http://bit.ly/1Q86UuF 

Commentaries by: 

- Jeremy Collins - http://bit.ly/1WFNRvu 
- Christophe Coupé - http://bit.ly/1oyQDYg 
- Bart de Boer - http://bit.ly/1TCtlhb 
- Mark Donohue - http://bit.ly/1XJYChG 
- Carol R. Ember - http://bit.ly/1XJYDSB 
- Carlos Gussenhoven - http://bit.ly/1T3yzmE 
- Harald Hammarström - http://bit.ly/1oEyokZ 
- D. Robert Ladd - http://bit.ly/21ne6KB 
- Steven Moran - http://bit.ly/20SoHLw 
- Ljiljana Progovac and Martha Ratliff - http://bit.ly/1QXx0jF 
- Bodo Winter and Andy Wedel - http://bit.ly/1L8ihFS 

Response by Caleb Everett, Damián E. Blasí, and Seán G. Roberts -
http://bit.ly/1Q87uZg 

Book Review

Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language
evolved to make it special by Thom Scott-Phillips - http://bit.ly/1RYugro 

Reviewed by Catriona Silvey

Read the full issue free online at http://bit.ly/1QdQILW
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Typology



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