Universal Principles in the Repair of Communication Problems.

There would be little adaptive value in a complex communication system like human language if there were no ways to detect and correct problems. A systematic comparison of conversation in a broad sample of the world's languages reveals a universal system for the real-time resolution of frequent...

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Main Authors: Mark Dingemanse, Seán G Roberts, Julija Baranova, Joe Blythe, Paul Drew, Simeon Floyd, Rosa S Gisladottir, Kobin H Kendrick, Stephen C Levinson, Elizabeth Manrique, Giovanni Rossi, N J Enfield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4573759?pdf=render

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