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Spoken and Sign Language Emergence: A Comparison
Languages, 2022 A comparison of emerging signed languages and creole languages provides evidence that, when language is emerging, it prioritizes marking the novelty of information; is readily recursive; favors the manner of action (aspect) over the time of action (tense)
John McWhorter
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Recruiting a nonlocal language for performing local identity: indexical appropriations of Lingala in the Congolese border town Goma [PDF]
, 2013 This article describes discursive processes by which inhabitants of the Congolese border town Goma attribute new indexical values to Lingala, a language exogenous to the area of which most Goma inhabitants only possess limited knowledge.
Büscher, Karen +2 more
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The Body as Evidence for the Nature of Language
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Taking its cue from sign languages, this paper proposes that the recruitment and composition of body actions provide evidence for key properties of language and its emergence. Adopting the view that compositionality is the fundamental organizing property
Wendy Sandler
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Constructing Complexity in a Young Sign Language
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 A universally acknowledged, core property of language is its complexity, at each level of structure – sounds, words, phrases, clauses, utterances, and higher levels of discourse. How does this complexity originate and develop in a language?
Svetlana Dachkovsky +2 more
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Is Reduced Visual Processing the Price of Language?
Brain Sciences, 2022 We suggest a later timeline for full language capabilities in Homo sapiens, placing the emergence of language over 200,000 years after the emergence of our species. The late Paleolithic period saw several significant changes.
Christer Johansson, Per Olav Folgerø
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Investigating Meaning in Experimental Semiotics
Psychology of Language and Communication, 2016 Experimental semiotics is a new discipline developed over the last decade to study human communication. Studies within this discipline typically involve people creating novel signs by associating signals with meanings.
Roberts Gareth, Galantucci Bruno
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Justification Of Conditioning Volitional Development Of Children\u27s Mastering Their Language Skills And Functions [PDF]
, 2017 The article analyzes the scientific approaches of domestic scientists to understanding the problem of will and the interrelated aspects of its development in ontogenesis.
Poul, V. (Valentyna)
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Compositionality and Generalization In Emergent Languages [PDF]
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020 Natural language allows us to refer to novel composite concepts by combining expressions denoting their parts according to systematic rules, a property known as \emph{compositionality}. In this paper, we study whether the language emerging in deep multi-agent simulations possesses a similar ability to refer to novel primitive combinations, and whether ...
Chaabouni, Rahma +4 more
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The Birth and Evolution of Symbolic Information
Proceedings, 2020 This work presents the main points of Deacon’s theory about the emergence of human language, which are summarized as follows: (1) a relaxed selection processes with the evolution of cooperative social life; (2) the development of first simple symbolic ...
José Monserrat Neto
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Early Emergence of Agreement in Yucatec Maya Sign Language
Languages, 2022 In many sign languages, space is used to express grammatical features. However, verb agreement in space is noticeably slow to appear in emerging sign languages.
Olivier Le Guen
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