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Constructing a Consensus on Language Evolution? Convergences and Differences Between Biolinguistic and Usage-Based Approaches [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Two of the main theoretical approaches to the evolution of language are biolinguistics and usage-based approaches. Both are often conceptualized as belonging to seemingly irreconcilable “camps.” Biolinguistic approaches assume that the ability to acquire
Michael Pleyer, Stefan Hartmann
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Some Problems for Biolinguistics
Biolinguistics, 2014 Biolinguistics will have to face and resolve several problems before it can achieve a pivotal position in the human sciences. Its relationship to the Minimalist Program is ambiguous, creating doubts as to whether it is a genuine subdiscipline or merely ...
Derek Bickerton
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Biolinguistics: A Scientometric Analysis of Research on (Children’s) Molecular Genetics of Speech and Language (Disorders) [PDF]
Children, 2022 There are numerous children and adolescents throughout the world who are either diagnosed with speech and language disorders or manifest any of them as a result of another disorder.
Ahmed Alduais +3 more
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Human Linguisticality and the Building Blocks of Languages. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2019 This paper discusses the widely held idea that the building blocks of languages (features, categories, and architectures) are part of an innate blueprint for Human Language, and notes that if one allows for convergent cultural evolution of grammatical ...
Haspelmath M.
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On the Diversity of Linguistic Data and the Integration of the Language Sciences [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 An integrated science of language is usually advocated as a step forward for linguistic research. In this paper, we maintain that integration of this sort is premature, and cannot take place before we identify a common object of study.
Roberta D’Alessandro +2 more
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Formal Syntax and Deep History [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 We show that, contrary to long-standing assumptions, syntactic traits, modeled here within the generative biolinguistic framework, provide insights into deep-time language history.
Andrea Ceolin +3 more
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Ceaseless, Unpredictable Creativity: Language as Technology [PDF]
Biolinguistics, 2009 Notions like ‘biolinguistics’ have a trivial and a non-trivial interpretation. According to the trivial version, a cultural phenomenon like language is only based on our innate biological capacities. Language, in this view, is not a matter of biology per
Jan Koster
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Language as an instrument of thought [PDF]
Glossa, 2016 I show that there are good arguments and evidence to boot that support the language as an instrument of thought hypothesis. The underlying mechanisms of language, comprising of expressions structured hierarchically and recursively, provide a perspective (
Eran Asoulin
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What Connects Biolinguistics and Biosemiotics?
Biolinguistics, 2013 This paper reviews the background, fundamental questions, current issues, and goals of the intellectual movements initiated by Noam Chomsky’s biolinguistics and Thomas A. Sebeok’s (1920-2001) biosemiotics.
Prisca Augustyn
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Syntactic Theory is also a Metaphor [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Tommi eLeung
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