Yang Xu

Algorithms in the historical emergence of word senses.

Christian Ramiro, Mahesh Srinivasan, Barbara C. Malt et al. · 2018 · 48 citations · Full text

Engineering, Language Evolution, Semantic Processing +20

From language development to language evolution: A unified view of human lexical creativity

Thomas Brochhagen, Gemma Boleda, Eleonora Gualdoni et al. · Science · 2023 · 47 citations

Language Evolution, Neurolinguistics, Language Development +24

The forms and meanings of grammatical markers support efficient communication

Francis Mollica, Geoff Bacon, Noga Zaslavsky et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021 · 43 citations · Full text

Crosslinguistic word order variation reflects evolutionary pressures of dependency and information locality

Michael Hahn, Yang Xu · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022 · 34 citations · Full text

Chaining and the growth of linguistic categories

Amir Ahmad Habibi, Charles Kemp, Yang Xu · Cognition · 2020 · 15 citations

Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Language Science +6