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1	The biological and cultural foundations of language.
	Reali, F; Christiansen, MH; Chater, N
	In: Commun Integr Biol , 2 (3) pp. 221-222. (2009) (2009)
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2	Restrictions on biological adaptation in language evolution
	Chater, N; Reali, F; Christiansen, MH
	In: P NATL ACAD SCI USA , 106 (4) 1015 - 1020. (2009) (2009)
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3	Language as shaped by the brain
	Christiansen, MH; Chater, N
	In: BEHAV BRAIN SCI , 31 (5) 489 - 509. (2008) (2008)
	Abstract: It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are intimately related. This relationship is frequently suggested to derive from a language-specific biological endowment, which encodes universal, but communicatively arbitrary, principles of language structure (a Universal Grammar or UG). How might such a UG have evolved? We argue that UG could not have arisen either by biological adaptation or non-adaptationist genetic processes, resulting in a logical problem of language evolution. Specifically, as the processes of language change are much more rapid than processes of genetic change, language constitutes a "moving target" both over time and across different human populations, and hence, cannot provide a stable environment to which language genes could have adapted. We conclude that a biologically determined UG is not evolutionarily viable. Instead, the original motivation for UG - the mesh between learners and languages - arises because language has been shaped to fit the human brain, rather than vice versa. Following Darwin, we view language itself as a complex and interdependent "organism," which evolves under selectional pressures from human learning and processing mechanisms. That is, languages themselves are shaped by severe selectional pressure from each generation of language users and learners. This suggests that apparently arbitrary aspects of linguistic structure may result from general learning and processing biases deriving from the structure of thought processes, perceptuo-motor factors, cognitive limitations, and pragmatics.
	Keyword: ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE; biological adaptation; cultural evolution; DARWINS FINCHES; DISTRIBUTIONAL CUES; grammaticalization; language acquisition; language evolution; linguistic change; LINGUISTIC EVOLUTION; natural selection; NATURAL-SELECTION; PHONOLOGICAL MARKERS; PROBABILISTIC CONSTRAINTS; SYNTACTIC AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION; Universal Grammar; WORD-ORDER
	URL: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/168484/1/download10.pdf http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/168484/
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4	The phonological-distributional coherence hypothesis: Cross-linguistic evidence in language acquisition
	Monaghan, P; Christiansen, MH; Chater, N
	In: COGNITIVE PSYCHOL , 55 (4) 259 - 305. (2007) (2007)
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5	Variability is the spice of learning, and a crucial ingredient for detecting and generalizing in nonadjacent dependencies
	Onnis, L; Monaghan, P; Christiansen, MH...
	In: In: Forbus, K and Gentner, D and Regier, T, (eds.) PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY. (pp. 1047 - 1052). LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOC PUBL (2005) (2005)
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6	The differential role of phonological and distributional cues in grammatical categorisation
	Monaghan, P; Chater, N; Christiansen, MH
	In: COGNITION , 96 (2) 143 - 182. (2005) (2005)
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7	Inequality between the classes: Phonological and distributional typicality as predictors of lexical processing
	Monaghan, P; Chater, N; Christiansen, MH
	In: In: Alterman, R and Kirsh, D, (eds.) PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY, Pts 1 and 2. (pp. 810 - 815). LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOC PUBL (2003) (2003)
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8	Reduction of uncertainty in human sequential learning: Evidence from artificial grammar learning
	Onnis, L; Christiansen, MH; Chater, N...
	In: In: Alterman, R and Kirsh, D, (eds.) PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY, Pts 1 and 2. (pp. 886 - 891). LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOC PUBL (2003) (2003)
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9	Connectionist psycholinguistics: capturing the empirical data
	Christiansen, MH; Chater, N
	In: TRENDS COGN SCI , 5 (2) 82 - 88. (2001) (2001)
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10	Connectionist psycholinguistics
	Christiansen, MH; Chater, N. - : Ablex, 2001
	In: Ablex: Westport,CT. (2001) (2001)
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11	Connectionist psycholinguistics: The very idea.
	Christiansen, MH; Chater, N
	In: In: Christiansen, MH and Chater, N, (eds.) Connectionist psycholinguistics. (pp. 1-15). Ablex: Westport,CT. (2001) (2001)
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12	Finite models of infinite language: A connectionist approach to recursion
	Christiansen, MH; Chater, N
	In: In: Christiansen, MH and Chater, N, (eds.) Connectionist psycholinguistics. (pp. 138-176). Ablex: Westport, CT. (2001) (2001)
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13	Connectionist psycholinguistics in perspective
	Christiansen, MH; Chater, N
	In: In: Christiansen, MH and Chater, N, (eds.) Connectionist psycholinguistics. (pp. 19-75). Ablex: Westport, CT. (2001) (2001)
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14	Connectionist natural language processing: The state of the art
	Christiansen, MH; Chater, N
	In: COGNITIVE SCI , 23 (4) 417 - 437. (1999) (1999)
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15	Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance
	Christiansen, MH; Chater, N
	In: COGNITIVE SCI , 23 (2) 157 - 205. (1999) (1999)
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