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Language evolution and complexity considerations: The no half-Merge fallacy

Recently, prominent theoretical linguists have argued for an explicit scenario for the evolution of the human language capacity on the basis of its computational properties. Concretely, the simplicity of a minimalist formulation of the operation Merge, which allows humans to recursively compute hier...

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Published in:PLoS Biol
Main Authors: Martins, Pedro Tiago, Boeckx, Cedric
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6880980/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31774810
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000389
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