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!!!Evolution of language
* Writing - 5000 years
Piattelli-Palmerini
* language is a spandrel
Chomsky
* Language not naturally selected
* Probably product of principles of neural organization grounded in physical laws
Pinker and Bloom (1990)
* Incremental evolution
* Enhances cooperation
Givon (1995) Bickerton (1990)
* Two main stages of evolution
* Proto-language => Modern language (50000 yrs ago)
Elements
* Non-situation specific language use
* Conventional and unlimited symbols
* Concatenation
* Grammatical categories
* Recursion
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