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Mothering plus vocalization doesn't equal language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2005

Derek Bickerton
Derek Bickerton*
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI97822
*
bickertond@prodigy.net
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Abstract:

Falk has much of interest to say on the evolution of mothering, but she fails to address the core issue of language evolution: how symbolism or structure evolved. Control of infants does not require either, and Falk provides neither evidence nor arguments supporting referential symbolism as a component of mother-infant interactions.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 504 - 505
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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