Antonio Benítez-Burraco
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonio Benítez-Burraco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonio |
| FAMILY NAME | Benítez-Burraco |
| SIGNATURE | BENÍTEZ-BURRACO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dpto. de Filología Española y sus Didácticas, Universidad de Huelva, Campus de El Carmen, 21071, Huelva, Spain |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sensitivity to ideophones by child non-native speakers increases with age
Sound-symbolic effects have been claimed to facilitate word learning, because of the motivated relationship between form and meaning. According to some views, such effects result from human-specific perceptive and cognitive biases and can be thus universal. This paper tests the sensibility to ideophones (a type of sound-symbolic words) by children acquiring Spanish, a language lacking this word class. Results show that younger children are mostly…
The absence of a trade-off between morphological and syntactic complexity
The hypothesis that all languages are equally complex often invokes a trade-off principle, according to which if a language is more complex in one particular domain, it will be simpler in another different domain. In this paper, we use data from WALS to test the existence of a trade-off between two specific domains: morphology and syntax. Contrary to widespread views, we did not find a negative correlation between these two language domains, but …
Prehistoric languages and human self-domestication
The comparative method has enabled us to trace distant phylogenetic relationships among languages and reconstruct extinct languages from the past. Nonetheless, it has limitations, mostly resulting from the circumstance that languages also change by contact with unrelated languages and in response to external factors, particularly, aspects of human cognition and features of our physical and cultural environments. In this paper, it is argued that t…
Chield: The causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database
Language is one of the most complex of human traits. There are many hypotheses about how it originated, what factors shaped its diversity, and what ongoing processes drive how it changes. We present the Causal Hypotheses in Evolutionary Linguistics Database (CHIELD, https://chield.excd.org/), a tool for expressing, exploring, and evaluating hypotheses. It allows researchers to integrate multiple theories into a coherent narrative, helping to desi…
A four-stage model for language evolution under the effects of human self-domestication
Grammaticalization and language evolution: Focusing the debate
Es el lenguaje (complejo) el resultado de una transferencia genética entre neandertales y humanos modernos
La reciente constatación de ADN neandertal en determinadas poblaciones humanas modernas sugiere un cruce limitado entre ambas especies. Esta transferencia genética pudo haber afectado a las capacidades cognitivas de los neandertales y justificar, en particular, que hubiesen tenido lenguaje moderno. Tal posibilidad se examina a la luz de las propias evidencias genéticas, pero también de las de tipo paleoantropológico y arqueológico utilizadas habi…
On the Inference 'Neanderthals Had Foxp2 = They Had Complex Language
Es el lenguaje (complejo) el resultado de una transferencia genética entre neandertales y humanos modernos
La reciente constatación de ADN neandertal en determinadas poblaciones humanas modernas sugiere un cruce limitado entre ambas especies. Esta transferencia genética pudo haber afectado a las capacidades cognitivas de los neandertales y justificar, en particular, que hubiesen tenido lenguaje moderno. Tal posibilidad se examina a la luz de las propias evidencias genéticas, pero también de las de tipo paleoantropológico y arqueológico utilizadas habi…
On the Inference 'Neanderthals Had Foxp2 = They Had Complex Language
Grammaticalization and language evolution: Focusing the debate
Prehistoric languages and human self-domestication
The comparative method has enabled us to trace distant phylogenetic relationships among languages and reconstruct extinct languages from the past. Nonetheless, it has limitations, mostly resulting from the circumstance that languages also change by contact with unrelated languages and in response to external factors, particularly, aspects of human cognition and features of our physical and cultural environments. In this paper, it is argued that t…
Chield: The causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database
Language is one of the most complex of human traits. There are many hypotheses about how it originated, what factors shaped its diversity, and what ongoing processes drive how it changes. We present the Causal Hypotheses in Evolutionary Linguistics Database (CHIELD, https://chield.excd.org/), a tool for expressing, exploring, and evaluating hypotheses. It allows researchers to integrate multiple theories into a coherent narrative, helping to desi…
A four-stage model for language evolution under the effects of human self-domestication
The absence of a trade-off between morphological and syntactic complexity
The hypothesis that all languages are equally complex often invokes a trade-off principle, according to which if a language is more complex in one particular domain, it will be simpler in another different domain. In this paper, we use data from WALS to test the existence of a trade-off between two specific domains: morphology and syntax. Contrary to widespread views, we did not find a negative correlation between these two language domains, but …
Sensitivity to ideophones by child non-native speakers increases with age
Sound-symbolic effects have been claimed to facilitate word learning, because of the motivated relationship between form and meaning. According to some views, such effects result from human-specific perceptive and cognitive biases and can be thus universal. This paper tests the sensibility to ideophones (a type of sound-symbolic words) by children acquiring Spanish, a language lacking this word class. Results show that younger children are mostly…
Language and cultural evolution (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Art (2 works)