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A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis: the case of nominal and verbal grammatical marking

Abstract Nouns and verbs are known to differ in the types of grammatical information they encode. What is less well known is the relationship between verbal and nominal coding within and across languages. The equi-complexity hypothesis holds that all languages are equally complex overall, which entails…
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022-12-06

Dogs display owner-specific expectations based on olfaction

Abstract Most current knowledge about dogs’ understanding of, and reacting to, their environment is limited to the visual or auditory modality, but it remains unclear how olfaction and cognition are linked together. Here we investigate how domestic dogs search for their owners using their excellent olfactory…
London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature, 2021-02-08