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    "pk": 27356,
    "title": "Silent gesture and noun phrase universals",
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    "abstract": "In this paper we investigate a hypothesized cognitive bias forisomorphic mappings between conceptual structure and linearorder in the noun phrase. This bias has been proposed as a pos-sible explanation for a striking asymmetry in the typology ofthe noun phrase–linear orders which place the adjective clos-est to the noun, then the numeral, then the demonstrative, areover-represented in the world’s languages. Previous experi-mental work has provided evidence that an isomorphism biasaffects English-speaking learners’ inferences about the relativeorder of modifiers in an artificial language. Here, we use thesilent gesture paradigm to explore whether the isomorphismbias influences spontaneous gestures innovated by participantsin a modality with which they have relatively little prior experi-ence. We find that gesture string order largely conforms to thesame striking pattern found in noun phrase typology, support-ing the role of the isomorphism bias in shaping the emergenceof language (and language-like) systems.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "silent gesture; noun phrase; word order; linguisticuniversals; cognitive biases"
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    "section": "Posters: Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Marieke",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Schouwstra",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Simon",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kirby",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jennifer",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Culbertson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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