From Primate to Human in Two Easy Steps
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Grammar and Beyond: Essays in honour of Lars Hellan |
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| 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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