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1 - Theory and Praxis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2020

Elliot Murphy
Elliot Murphy
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University College London
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This chapter surveys what the ethological record reveals about the uniqueness of the human computational system, and explores how linguistic theories account for what ethology may determine to be human-specific. The core computational architecture of the language faculty is compared alongside existing accounts of non-human primates, songbirds and a number of other species, helping to delimit what computational processes electrophysiological models of language need to account for.

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syntaxsemanticsethologyhierarchyrecursion
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The Oscillatory Nature of Language , pp. 16 - 52
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Theory and Praxis
  • Elliot Murphy, University College London
  • Book: The Oscillatory Nature of Language
  • Online publication: 20 October 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108864466.002
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  • Theory and Praxis
  • Elliot Murphy, University College London
  • Book: The Oscillatory Nature of Language
  • Online publication: 20 October 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108864466.002
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  • Theory and Praxis
  • Elliot Murphy, University College London
  • Book: The Oscillatory Nature of Language
  • Online publication: 20 October 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108864466.002
Available formats
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