Simpler grammar, larger vocabulary: How population size affects language

Population size does not explain past changes in cultural complexity

(2016) Krist Vaesen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rate of language evolution is affected by population size

(2015) Lindell Bromham et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Heterogeneous clustered random graphs

(2014) T. House   EPL

The scaling of human interactions with city size

(2014) M. Schlapfer et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Persistence of social signatures in human communication

(2014) J. Saramaki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Origins of Scaling in Cities

(2013) L. M. A. Bettencourt   SCIENCE

UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINS OF MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSITY: THE LINGUISTIC NICHE HYPOTHESIS

(2012) RICK DALE et al.   ADVANCES IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS

Propose but verify: Fast mapping meets cross-situational word learning

(2012) John C. Trueswell et al.   COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Social scale and structural complexity in human languages

(2012) D. Nettle   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music

(2012) Joan Serrà et al.   Scientific Reports

Language Structure Is Partly Determined by Social Structure

(2010) Gary Lupyan et al.   PLoS One

Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior

(2009) A. Powell et al.   SCIENCE

Language as shaped by the brain

(2008) Morten H. Christiansen et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES