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The language faculty that wasn't: a usage-based account of natural language recursion

In the generative tradition, the language faculty has been shrinking—perhaps to include only the mechanism of recursion. This paper argues that even this view of the language faculty is too expansive. We first argue that a language faculty is difficult to reconcile with evolutionary considerations....

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Autores principales: Christiansen, Morten H., Chater, Nick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4550780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26379567
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01182