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Reflections on Language Evolution

This essay reflects on the fact that as we learn more about the biological underpinnings of our language faculty, the dominant evolutionary narrative coming out of the linguistic tradition most explicitly oriented towards biology ('biolinguistics') appears increasingly implausible. This text offers...

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Autor principal: Boeckx, Cedric
Formato: Libro
Publicado: Language Science Press 2021
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Linguistics
Language arts
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