The emergence of hierarchical structure in human language
We propose a novel account for the emergence of human language syntax. Like many evolutionary innovations, language arose from the adventitious combination of two pre-existing, simpler systems that had been evolved for other functional tasks. The first system, Type E(xpression), is found in birdsong...
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Frontiers Research Foundation
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78592 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1061-1871 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6134-9463 |