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Word-sentences and an interaction-based account of language evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Bipin Indurkhya
Bipin Indurkhya
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan bipin@cc.tuat.ac.jp
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Abstract

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Considerations from an interaction-based approach to the evolution of language and the role of word-sentences therein show that the object-attribute ontology is arrived at a much later stage. Therefore, Hurford's arguments, by focusing on the predicate-argument structure, seem to miss out on most of the interesting aspects of the early stages in language evolution.

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Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 2003 , pp. 293
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press