An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California, Merced, has begun an ambitious quest to discover common principles that guide evolution of structures at the linguistic and molecular levels.
Professors Rick Dale in cognitive science, David Ardell in evolutionary biology and Suzanne Sindi in applied mathematics will spend the next three years conducting research that employs computational and mathematical models as well as human data to see what kind of fundamental similarities and differences they can find.
One of the things that attracted Chelsea Coe to UC Merced as an undergraduate student was the opportunity to do research.
UC Merced graduate student David Vinson recently obtained an intensely competitive 
Verbal interactions between parents and children create a social feedback loop important for language development, according to research by a professor at the University of California, Merced.
People’s attitudes could affect the amount of information they share, said UC Merced researchers who studied a massive chunk of Yelp business review data.
Most students don’t arrive at UC Merced by way of Germany and Hawaii.
