Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
et al. 1998): non-situation-specific use of a repertoireof single symbols, including both symbols for individuals (proper names) ...
Fig 8.2 Architecture of early single-symbol stage At this point, then, the syste mhas an architecture like Fig. 8.2. The sy mbol ...
deficits despite a half-size brain. Similarly, Lenneberg's (1967) discussion of Seckel Syndrome (“nanocephalic dwarfs”) did not ...
sounds to construct conventionalized vocalizations makes the distinction among vocalizations a categorical/digital matter rather ...
In terms of conscious control of speech, children can be taught to count syllables (in my experience) quite readily at three. Th ...
have not touched at all upon the evolutionof other aspects of the phonological system: tone in tone languages, stress, speech rh ...
purely by context. For example,Fred apple(imagine this uttered by an eighteen-month-old or a signing chimp) might express any nu ...
using the linear order of concatenated symbols to express relations between them, and introducing new sorts of vocabulary ite mt ...
insubjectposition,”whichcanofcoursebemitigatedbyconstructions suchas thepassive(Givón1995; VanValinand LaPolla 1997). We saw thi ...
BV is fairly close to what Bickerton (1990) describes as“protolanguage,”under which he lumps the organization of pidgins, the gr ...
However, the relationbetween the nouns is not totally free: whilesnowmanmight have meant a man who shovels away snowor whomakes ...
The architecture at this point thus looks like Fig. 8.3, in which the new generative syste mof phonology has been interposed int ...
8.8 Phrase structure All the phenomena discussed so far use word order to signal semantic relations amongwords; but this is not ...
8.9 Vocabulary for relational concepts One possible way of encoding semantic relations among words and phrases is to invent word ...
forceoftheutterance.A familarcaseofthelastoftheseistheuseinFrenchofestce queas afixedformulathat converts a declarative sentence ...
Relational vocabulary plays an important role in thought. It has been argued (Dennett 1991; Jackendoff 1996b, among many others) ...
The use of these expressions is governed only by rudimentary syntacticprinciples. As long as thesemantics is all right, a phrase ...
The syntax in this architecture determines a set of syntactic categories which are domains of word and phrase order regularities ...
and the noun phrase (4b) convey the same information in their words, and yet only the sentence is acceptable as an independent n ...
Is there a connection between these two asymmetries between nouns and verbs? Suppose at some point in the evolutionofUG, wordsex ...
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