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Associated Documents (4)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Minturn, LeighA cross-cultural linguistic analysis of freudian symbols
Ross, Robert M.Folktale transmission in the arctic provides evidence for high bandwidth social learning among h...
Van Rijn, PolModelling individual and cross-cultural variation in the mapping of emotions to speech prosody
Buckley, Christopher D. Contrasting Modes of Cultural Evolution: Kra-Dai Languages and Weaving Technologies

Associated Hypotheses (8)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Minturn, Leigh"In languages with a sex-linked grammatical gender, nouns representing objects that are either male or female symbols, but not both, will tend to have the gender of the sex they symbolize" (300)
Ross, Robert M.The folktale inventories of nearby groups will be more similar than those of distant groups (49).
Ross, Robert M.The folktale inventories of groups that diverged more recently will exhibit greater similarity than those of groups that diverged less recently (49).
Van Rijn, PolDifferences in country, language, sex, and speaker contribute to changes in how emotions are mapped onto speech prosody.
Buckley, Christopher D. Speakers of closely related languages will tend to use similar types of weaving looms
Buckley, Christopher D. Languages will evolve through smooth change
Buckley, Christopher D. Kra-Dai language and loom phylogenies will evolve along related but different paths
Buckley, Christopher D. Language phylogeny will predict a significant part of the variation in weaving looms

Associated OCMs

  1. semantics
  2. linguistic identification