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- Title
The explanatory advantages of the holistic protolanguage model: The case of linguistic irregularity.
- Authors
Wray, Alison
- Abstract
Our tolerance for, and promotion of, linguistic irregularity is a key arbitrator between Arbib's proposal that holistic protolanguage preceded culturally imposed compositionality, and the standard view that discrete units with word-like properties came first. The former, coupled with needs-only analysis, neatly accounts for the second-order linguistic complexity that is rationalised as fuzzy grammaticality, subclass exception, and full irregularity.
- Subjects
RECONSTRUCTION (Linguistics); LINGUISTICS; COMPARATIVE linguistics; COMPOSITIONALITY (Linguistics); COMPARATIVE grammar; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2005, Vol 28, Issue 2, p147
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X05450037