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    "pk": 25989,
    "title": "The Social Evolution and Communicative Function of Noun Classification",
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    "abstract": "A central goal of typological research is to characterize linguistic features in terms of both their functional role and\ntheir fit to social and cognitive systems. One longstanding puzzle concerns why certain languages employ grammatical gender,\nwhich assigns nouns to distinct classes and marks neighboring words for agreement. While historically noun classification\nhas been viewed as a useless ornament with little apparent rhyme or reason, there is an accumulating body of evidence that\nnative speakers use determiners to guide lexical access. Here, we compare the communicative function of gender marking in\nGerman (a deterministic system) to that of prenominal adjective use in English (a probabilistic one), finding that despite their\ndifferences, both systems efficiently smooth information over discourse, making upcoming nouns more equally predictable in\ncontext. We hypothesize that evolutionary pressures may favor one system over another on account of how easy they are for\nchildren and adults to acquire.",
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            "first_name": "Michael",
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            "last_name": "Ramscar",
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            "institution": "University of T¨ubingen",
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            "first_name": "Melody",
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            "last_name": "Dye",
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            "institution": "Indiana University",
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            "last_name": "Milin",
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            "institution": "University of Novi Sad",
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            "last_name": "Futrell",
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            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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