Cartography: Innateness or Convergent Cultural Evolution?
Haspelmath argues that linguists who conduct comparative research and try to explain patterns that are general across languages can only consider two sources of these patterns: convergent cultural evolution of languages, which provides functional explanations of these phenomena, or innate building b...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2022-04-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.887670/full |