Reflexivity, Functional Reference, and Modularity: Alternative Targets for Language Origins.
Researchers of language origins typically try to explain how compositional communication might evolve to bridge the gap between animal communication and natural language. However, as an explanatory target, compositionality has been shown to be problematic for a gradualist approach to the evolution o...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 88; no. 5; pp. 1234 - 1246 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2021
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