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Iconicity and Structure in the Emergence of Combinatoriality

2019-05-17

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<p>One design feature of human language is its combinatorial phonology, allowing it to form an unbounded set of meaningful utterances from a finite set of building blocks. Recent experiments suggest how this feature can evolve culturally when continuous signals are repeatedly transmitted between generations. Because the building blocks of a combinatorial system lack independent meaning, combinatorial structure app...

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Literature Corpus work: 91db70c4-2ee7-57d5-925d-2ca7ffab5d2a
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/vsjkt

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