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- Title
Pragmatics, prosody, and evolution: Language is more than a symbolic system.
- Authors
Kotchoubey, Boris
- Abstract
The model presented in the target article is biased towards a cognitive-symbolic understanding of language, thus ignoring its other important aspects. Possible relationships of this cognitive-symbolic subsystem to pragmatics and prosody of language are discussed in the first part of the commentary. In the second part, the issue of a purely social versus biological mechanisms for transition from protolanguage to properly language is considered
- Subjects
LANGUAGE &; languages -- Physiological aspects; COGNITION; ACTION assembly theory (Communication); RECONSTRUCTION (Linguistics); INFORMATION theory; COMPARATIVE linguistics
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2005, Vol 28, Issue 2, p136
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X05340039