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On the Locus of Asymmetry in UG [PDF]
In this article I advance a hypothesis concerning the locus of asymmetry in the grammar. I argue that the fundamental operation of Narrow Syntax (Merge) should be formulated in a symmetric form, and that all the sources of asymmetries should be relegated
Boeckx, Cedric
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Applied linguistics as a manifestation of exo-, meso- and endo-symbiosis [PDF]
An assumption is made that applied linguistics may be viewed as an outcome of an interplay of a dichotomy of endogenous and exogenous symbionts, mediated by important mesogenous symbionts acting jointly within the domain of language and communication ...
Puppel, Stanisław
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La incidencia del contexto en los discursos [PDF]
Este volumen recoge diversos trabajos que abordan el estudio de la influencia del contexto en los discursos desde diversas perspectivas (sociolingüística, biolingüística, lingüística clínica, etc.) y en diferentes ámbitos comunicativos (conversación ...
Calvo Pérez, Julio +11 more
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Chunking dynamics: heteroclinics in mind [PDF]
This Document is Protected by copyright and was first published by Frontiers. All rights reserved. It is reproduced with permissionRecent results of imaging technologies and non-linear dynamics make possible to relate the structure and dynamics of ...
Afraimovich, Valentin S. +3 more
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A Program for the Genetics of Grammar
Departing from Lenneberg’s biological conception of language and its de- velopment, this paper first reviews select examples from research on lan- guage development and its interface with genetics before making some specific proposals with regard to how ...
Kenneth N. Wexler
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Can a bird brain do phonology?
A number of recent studies have revealed correspondences between song- and language-related neural structures, pathways, and gene expression in humans and songbirds.
Bridget D. Samuels, Bridget D. Samuels
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Поза рекурсією: критика Гаузера, Чамського та Фітча [PDF]
In 2002, Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch published an article in which they introduced a distinction between properties of language that are exclusively part of human communication (i.e., the FLN) and those properties that might be shared with other species ...
Bandara, Achintha +3 more
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Possible functional links among brain- and skull-related genes selected in modern humans
The sequencing of the genomes from extinct hominins has revealed that changes in some brain-related genes have been selected after the split between anatomically-modern humans and Neanderthals/Denisovans.
Antonio eBenítez-Burraco +2 more
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Bidirectional syntactic priming across cognitive domains: from arithmetic to language and back [PDF]
Scheepers et al. (2011) showed that the structure of a correctly solved mathematical equation affects how people subsequently complete sentences containing high vs. low relative-clause attachment ambiguities.
Frazier L., Friederici A. D., Hardin J.
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Biolinguistics and Platonism: Contradictory or Consilient?
It has been argued that language is a Platonic object, and therefore that a biolinguistic ontology is incoherent. In particular, the notion of language as a system of discrete infinity has been argued to be inconsistent with the assumption of a physical (
Jeffrey Watumull
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