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List of works by Sean Roberts

Climate, vocal folds, and tonal languages: Connecting the physiological and geographic dots

scientific article

Cognitive influences in language evolution: Psycholinguistic predictors of loan word borrowing

scientific article published on 16 February 2019

Commentary: Large-scale psychological differences within China explained by rice vs. wheat agriculture.

scientific article published on 7 July 2015

Cultural influences on word meanings revealed through large-scale semantic alignment

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Differential coding of perception in the world's languages

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Future Tense and Economic Decisions: Controlling for Cultural Evolution

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

Gender bias in video game dialogue

scientific article published in 2023

Linguistic diversity and traffic accidents: lessons from statistical studies of cultural traits

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Multimodality and the origin of a novel communication system in face-to-face interaction

scientific article published on 15 January 2020

Robust, Causal, and Incremental Approaches to Investigating Linguistic Adaptation

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

The Interactive Origin of Iconicity

scientific article published on 15 May 2017

The effects of processing and sequence organization on the timing of turn taking: a corpus study

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

Universal Principles in the Repair of Communication Problems

scientific article

What are the social, economic and ecological conditions for the evolution of complex communication systems?: Comment on "Rethinking foundations of language from a multidisciplinary perspective" by T. Gong et al

scientific article published on 30 June 2018

Why are some languages confused for others? Investigating data from the Great Language Game

scientific article published on 5 April 2017