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- Title
El tercer factor. Reflexiones marginales sobre la evolución de la sintaxis.
- Authors
González, Guillermo Lorenzo
- Abstract
This paper aims to justify the idea that some design features of human languages, such as the hierarchical organization of phrases, have evolved with independence of natural selection. Such features seem perfectly adjusted to the computational needs of the mental modules with which language interfaces, but they are completely disconnected from speakers' ecological or homeostatic needs. It seems thus natural to link them with developmental and evolutionary factors not directly related with either the genetic endowment or the experience.
- Subjects
SYNTAX (Grammar); NATURAL selection; ORIGIN of languages; NATIVE language; HIERARCHY (Linguistics); LINGUISTIC analysis
- Publication
Teorema, 2006, Vol 25, Issue 3, p77
- ISSN
0210-1602
- Publication type
Article