Language evolution and complexity considerations: The no half-Merge fallacy.
Recently, prominent theoretical linguists have argued for an explicit scenario for the evolution of the human language capacity on the basis of its computational properties. Concretely, the simplicity of a minimalist formulation of the operation Merge, which allows humans to recursively compute hier...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-11-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000389 |