Symbol and Structure: A Comprehensive Framework for Language Evolution
Symbol and Structure: A Comprehensive Framework for Language Evolution
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符号与结构：语言演化的综合框架
DOI：
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199244843.003.0005
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发表时间：
2003
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
D. Bickerton
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作者：
D. Bickerton
虽然跨学科的方法是必不可少的语言进化的研究，语言学必须被分配一个关键的作用。许多在其他学科看来似乎合理的假设与语言的基本事实并不一致。提出了一个整体框架，将语言的符号元素（单词）从结构元素（语法）中分离出来，因为这两者可能有不同的来源。尽管许多非语言学家对神经元知之甚少，但它是我们和其他物种之间最有可能的卢比孔河，但可能不需要像许多人担心的那样复杂的神经基质。
While an interdisciplinary approach is essential for the study of language evolution, linguistics must be assigned a key role. Many hypotheses plausible in terms of other disciplines are not consistent with basic facts about language. An overall framework is proposed that would dissociate the symbolic element of language (words) from the structural element (syntax), since the two probably have distinct sources. Syntax, though poorly understood by many nonlinguists, is the likeliest Rubicon between ourselves and other species, but may not require quite so complex a neurological substrate as many have feared.