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All or nothing: No half-Merge and the evolution of syntax

In their Essay on the evolution of human language, Martins and Boeckx seek to refute what they call the “half-Merge fallacy”—the conclusion that the most elementary computational operation for human language syntax, binary set formation, or “Merge,” evolved in a single step. We show that their argum...

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Autores principales: Berwick, Robert C., Chomsky, Noam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6880979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31774809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000539