Phi-Features in Animal Cognition
This paper argues that the core phi-features behind grammatical person, number, and gender are widely used in animal cognition and are in no way limited to humans or to communication. Based on this, it is hypothesized (i) that the semantics behind phi-features were fixed long before primates evolved...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology
2018-09-01
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Series: | Biolinguistics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5964/bioling.9131 |