Ebook: Cognition and communication in the evolution of language
Author: Reboul Anne
- Tags: Language and languages, Origin, Psycholinguistics, Biolinguistics
- Series: Oxford linguistics., Oxford studies in biolinguistics
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This book proposes a new two-step approach to the evolution of language, whereby syntax first evolved as an auto-organizational process for the human conceptual apparatus (as a Language of Thought), and this Language of Thought was then externalized for communication, due to social selection pressures. Anne Reboul first argues that despite the routine use of language in communication, current use is not a failsafeRead more...
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This book shows that language, though now routinely used for communication, actually primarily evolved as a system for thought. Anne Reboul proposes a new two-step approach whereby syntax firstRead more...
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