From Primate to Human in Two Easy Steps

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Authors

EMONDS Joseph Embley

Year of publication 2005
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Grammar and Beyond: Essays in honour of Lars Hellan
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords language evolution; vision and speech; lexical structure; primate cognition
Description reduces Hocketts universals of language to 2, discreteness and duality of patterning, and argues that the first is based on primate discrete vision projected mentally, and the second explains large lexicons and displacement
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