The first words ever spoken.

I argue that ontologies of words should engage with the emergence of lexical communication in the deep history of our line. It may seem that the evolutionary origins of words are orthogonal to the analytical project of establishing the defining features of wordhood, and that an adequate ontology of...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 201; no. 5; pp. 1 - 18
Main Author: Gasparri, Luca
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature May2023
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost