Compositionality in animals and humans.
A key step in understanding the evolution of human language involves unravelling the origins of language's syntactic structure. One approach seeks to reduce the core of syntax in humans to a single principle of recursive combination, merge, for which there is no evidence in other species. We ar...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-08-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006425 |