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Reflections on language evolution ... : From minimalism to pluralism ...
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Reflections on language evolution: From minimalism to pluralism ...
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Hierarchical control as a shared neurocognitive mechanism for language and music
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An agent-based model of the origins of modern linguistic complexity – supplementary information ...
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Sound production learning across species: Beyond the vocal learning dichotomy
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In: TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa) (2020)
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Sound production learning across species: Beyond the vocal learning dichotomy
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Evolutionary Dynamics Do Not Motivate a Single-Mutant Theory of Human Language
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Interpreting A-Chains at the Interface
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In: North East Linguistics Society (2020)
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Expletive Split: Existentials and Presentationals
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In: North East Linguistics Society (2020)
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Language evolution and complexity considerations: The no half-Merge fallacy
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Recently, prominent theoretical linguists have argued for an explicit scenario for the evolution of the human language capacity on the basis of its computational properties. Concretely, the simplicity of a minimalist formulation of the operation Merge, which allows humans to recursively compute hierarchical relations in language, has been used to promote a sudden-emergence, single-mutation scenario. In support of this view, Merge is said to be either fully present or fully absent: one cannot have half-Merge. On this basis, it is inferred that the emergence of our fully fledged language capacity had to be sudden. Thus, proponents of this view draw a parallelism between the formal complexity of the operation at the computational level and the number of evolutionary steps it must imply. Here, we examine this argument in detail and show that the jump from the atomicity of Merge to a single-mutation scenario is not valid and therefore cannot be used as justification for a theory of language evolution along those lines.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6880980/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31774810 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000389
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Language evolution and complexity considerations: The no half-Merge fallacy
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The contribution of the hippocampus to language processing
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In: TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa) (2017)
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Domain-general perspectives on the neurocognitive specialization of language
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In: TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa) (2017)
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Domain-general perspectives on the neurocognitive specialization of language
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