10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROTOLANGUAGE»
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protolanguage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Emergence of
Protolanguage: Holophrasis Vs Compositionality
The authors of this volume all agree that there was no single mutation or cultural innovation that took our ancestors directly from a limited system of a few vocalizations (primarily innate) and gestures (some learned) to language.
Michael A. Arbib, Derek Bickerton, 2010
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The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and ...
16. How. Protolanguage. Became. Language. DEREK BICKERTON 1.
Introduction The present chapter presents the evolution of language as a
sequence of three stages. The first stage is the derivation of the basic structure of
syntax from a ...
Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, James R. Hurford, 2000
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The Evolution of Human Language: Scenarios, Principles, and ...
CHAPTER. 8. The. form. of. a. "protolanguage". and. the. contours. of. a. theory. of
. language. evolution. The idea of a "protolanguage" is as old as are reflections
on language. One encounters it in the concept of the "adamic" language, i.e., the
...
4
The Evolution of Communication
But the starting point is what Bickerton calls a protolanguage, a system of
communication that has the rudimentary structure of full-blown language; for
example, protolanguages use secondary representations but lack some of the
significant ...
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Conceptual Structures: Logical, Linguistic, and ...
But before I embark on that task, I need to introduce the linguists' notion of
protolanguage. 5. Language. and. Protolanguage. Language is much more than
a system of communication. Communication systems are generally mixtures of
sounds, ...
Bernhard Ganter, Guy W. Mineau, 2000
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Phenomenology of the Human Person
In addition to these four instances of protolanguage (the “speech” of small
children, stunted speakers, disturbed speakers, and trained animals), there is a
fifth type, and it is perhaps the most interesting of all. It occurs in what are called
pidgins.
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The Origins of Language: Unraveling Evolutionary Forces
The possibility of holistic protolanguage has been discussed in the literature. For
example, Wray (2000) proposed that there was a stage of protolanguage that
consisted entirely of holistic utterances, in which each utterance is a word that ...
8
Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles
according to the LBH scenario: What happened in Hawaii was a jump from
protolanguage to language in a single generation. [...] creole languages form an
unusually direct expression of a species-specific biological characteristic, a
capacity to ...
9
The Evolution of Language
In Chapter 12, we discussed models of “lexical” protolanguage, involving
utterances composed of single words, or multiple words combined without syntax
. We saw that, despite a number of explanatory strengths regarding the “end
game” of ...
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The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 8th ...
Explicit Predictions of Four Models of Protolanguage Unfortunately, the models
just sketched above are not complete: though each focuses on some aspect of
the modern human language faculty, they do not attempt to cover all of the
changes ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROTOLANGUAGE»
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protolanguage is used in the context of the following news items.
Conspiracy theory
What if there were well-founded linguistic arguments to prove that the locus of the protolanguage was close to the Vedic area and not somewhere in South ... «Hindu Business Line, Jul 15»
Our habitat: house
They have been monosyllabic for millennia, and even in the reconstructed protolanguage they were only one syllable longer (an ending or a so-called thematic ... «OUPblog, Jan 15»
Human language may have evolved to help our ancestors make tools
... years ago, would have required the capacity for teaching, and probably also the beginnings of spoken language—what the researchers call protolanguage. «Science Now, Jan 15»
Digging tswana roots
As with their shems, the Anakim kept away from people, which is why they spoke a slightly different language (almost certainly the now-lost protolanguage we ... «Mmegi Online, Mar 13»
A software program that could reconstruct the earliest human …
We have developed an automated system capable of large-scale reconstruction of protolanguage word forms, cognate sets, and sound change histories. «io9, Feb 13»
Computer program reconstructs dead languages
A computer program might help us reconstruct the roots of our languages (called protolanguages), according to a study by a group of researchers from California ... «Digital Trends, Feb 13»
Computer program can reconstruct extinct languages
... system uses probabilistic modelling in combination with algorithms and "automatically and accurately reconstructs protolanguages from modern languages". «Wired.co.uk, Feb 13»
Tone deaf shed light on origin of language
"If that's true then the vestiges of that protolanguage should still be in some shared neural resources of these two forms of communication," says Thompson, who ... «ABC Online, Oct 12»
Monthly Etymology Gleanings for March
The Nostratic hypothesis revived the age-old idea, according to which all languages go back to the same protolanguage, and attempts to reconstruct the ... «OUPblog, Mar 12»
Language and tool-making might be connected
He guesses early hominins probably used a simple protolanguage, but “at least by the advent of the Acheulean we would expect the beginnings of the ... «Cosmos, Jan 07»
