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| Title |
The precedence of syntax in the rapid emergence of human language in evolution as defined by the integration hypothesis
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, March 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00271 |
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| Authors |
Vitor A. Nóbrega, Shigeru Miyagawa |
| Abstract |
Our core hypothesis is that the emergence of human language arose very rapidly from the linking of two pre-adapted systems found elsewhere in the animal world-an expression system, found, for example, in birdsong, and a lexical system, suggestively found in non-human primate calls (Miyagawa et al., 2013, 2014). We challenge the view that language has undergone a series of gradual changes-or a single preliminary protolinguistic stage-before achieving its full character. We argue that a full-fledged combinatorial operation Merge triggered the integration of these two pre-adapted systems, giving rise to a fully developed language. This goes against the gradualist view that there existed a structureless, protolinguistic stage, in which a rudimentary proto-Merge operation generated internally flat words. It is argued that compounds in present-day language are a fossilized form of this prior stage, a point which we will question. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 32 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 9% |
| France | 2 | 6% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| Sweden | 1 | 3% |
| Greece | 1 | 3% |
| Argentina | 1 | 3% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 9% |
| Unknown | 15 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 24 | 75% |
| Scientists | 7 | 22% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 58 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| United States | 2 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 52 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 16% |
| Researcher | 9 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 9% |
| Professor | 5 | 9% |
| Other | 14 | 24% |
| Unknown | 8 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Linguistics | 17 | 29% |
| Arts and Humanities | 7 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 12% |
| Psychology | 5 | 9% |
| Philosophy | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 11 | 19% |
| Unknown | 8 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 79. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 July 2022.
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