What Lenneberg Got Right: A Homological Program for the Study of Language Evolution
By 1967, it was clear to Eric Lenneberg that reconstructing the phylogenetic history of language should require the adoption of a non-functional (or Owenian) homology concept for grounding relevant comparisons. Fifty years later, most biolinguistic approaches have betrayed this project, for they rou...
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Biolinguistics
2017-12-01
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Online Access: | https://biolinguistics.eu/index.php/biolinguistics/article/view/498 |