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What's special about human language? The contents of the "narrow language faculty" revisited

In this review we re-evaluate the recursion-only hypothesis, advocated by Fitch, Hauser and Chomsky (Hauser, Chomsky & Fitch, 2002; Fitch, Hauser & Chomsky, 2005). According to the recursion-only hypothesis, the property that distinguishes human language from animal communication systems is...

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Main Authors: Traxler, Matthew J., Boudewyn, Megan, Loudermilk, Jessica
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3478773/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23105948
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lnc3.355
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