Brody, Michael (2019) Some biolinguistic remarks. Acta Linguistica Academica, 66 (3). pp. 335-347. ISSN 2559-8201
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Abstract
After comments with laudatory and clarifying intent on the Chomskyan revolution, I make some critical remarks on Eörs Szathmáry's views on the evolution of language and its relation to the brain. This is followed by a brief sketch of the theory of one-dimensional syntax in the biolinguistic context, leading to the conclusion that the item-organizing specificity of human language may not be due to a qualitative change in narrow syntactic ability. This unique property may instead be a consequence of the possession of an interpretive module capable of parallel processing of numerous simple one-dimensional syntactic structures – which individually have no more configurational complexity than birdsong.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet |
| Depositing User: | László Sallai-Tóth |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2020 12:44 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Sep 2021 23:15 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/105538 |
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