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Phylogenetics of Indo-European Language Families via an Algebro-Geometric Analysis of Their Syntactic Structures
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In: Springer International Publishing (2021)
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Evaluating the Ability of LSTMs to Learn Context-Free Grammars
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In: Association for Computational Linguistics (2020)
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Deterministic Parsing: A Modern View
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In: North East Linguistics Society (2020)
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Colorless green ideas do sleep furiously: gradient acceptability and the nature of the grammar
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In: De Gruyter (2019)
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The slings and arrows of comparative linguistics
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In: PLoS (2019)
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The integration hypothesis of human language evolution and the nature of contemporary languages
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In: Frontiers (2014)
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Language: UG or Not to Be, That Is the Question
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In: Public Library of Science (2014)
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How Could Language Have Evolved?
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In: Public Library of Science (2014)
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The evolution of the faculty of language largely remains an enigma. In this essay, we ask why. Language's evolutionary analysis is complicated because it has no equivalent in any nonhuman species. There is also no consensus regarding the essential nature of the language “phenotype.” According to the “Strong Minimalist Thesis,” the key distinguishing feature of language (and what evolutionary theory must explain) is hierarchical syntactic structure. The faculty of language is likely to have emerged quite recently in evolutionary terms, some 70,000–100,000 years ago, and does not seem to have undergone modification since then, though individual languages do of course change over time, operating within this basic framework. The recent emergence of language and its stability are both consistent with the Strong Minimalist Thesis, which has at its core a single repeatable operation that takes exactly two syntactic elements a and b and assembles them to form the set {a, b}.
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90974
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The mystery of language evolution
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In: Frontiers Research Foundation (2014)
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Conceptual and Methodological Problems with Comparative Work on Artificial Language Learning
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In: BIOLINGUISTICS; Vol. 8 (2014); 120-129 ; 1450-3417 (2014)
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The integration hypothesis of human language evolution and the nature of contemporary languages
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