The emergence of linguistic structure: an overview of the iterated learning model
The emergence of linguistic structure: an overview of the iterated learning model
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语言结构的出现：迭代学习模型概述
DOI：
10.1007/978-1-4471-0663-0_6
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
J. Hurford
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作者：
S. Kirby;J. Hurford
作为语言使用者，人类拥有一个在自然界中无与伦比的复杂性的文化传播系统。在过去的40年里，语言学已经揭示了语言的句法结构的复杂程度。此外，正如Pinker和Bloom在他们的论文《自然语言和自然选择》中指出的那样，“语法是一种复杂的机制，专门用于通过串行接口传输命题结构”（Pinker和Bloom，1990：707）。这些观察，沿着来自语言学和心理学的关于语言先天性的有影响力的论点（参见乔姆斯基，1986;平克，1994），使许多作者得出结论，对句法起源的解释必须援引新达尔文主义的自然选择。
As language users humans possess a culturally transmitted system of unparalleled complexity in the natural world. Linguistics has revealed over the past 40 years the degree to which the syntactic structure of language in particular is strikingly complex. Furthermore, as Pinker and Bloom point out in their agenda-setting paper Natural Language and Natural Selection “grammar is a complex mechanism tailored to the transmission of propositional structures through a serial interface” (Pinker and Bloom, 1990: 707). These sorts of observations, along with influential arguments from linguistics and psychology about the innateness of language (see Chomsky, 1986; Pinker, 1994), have led many authors to the conclusion that an explanation for the origin of syntax must invoke neo-Darwinian natural selection.