Edward Ruoyang Shi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Edward Ruoyang Shi is involved.
Article
2026 Sequence as output, not limitation: Comparative evidence for niche-driven language evolution Evolutionary Linguistic Theory: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper challenges the “sequence bottleneck” hypothesis, which claims that limitations in sequence memory constrain animal cognition and that human language emerged by overcoming this universal limit. Drawing on comparative neuroscience, behavioral ecology, and language evolution research, we… read more