How spoken languages work in the absence of an inventory of discrete units.
Historically, linguists and psychologists have generally assumed that language is a combinatoric process, thereby taking the idea that language users have access to inventories of discrete, combinable units (phonemes, morphemes, words, etc.) for granted, despite the fact that these units have tended...
| Publicado en: | Language Sciences Vol. 53; pp. 58 - 75 |
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