| MacWhinney, B. (1999). The emergence of language from embodiment. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), Emergentist perspectives on language acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. |
....and neither do language genes. Transmission of language is cultural rather than genetic, language universals arise from universal contexts rather than a universal grammar and the transition from animal to human communication systems should be viewed gradual rather than principal (Steels, 1997a, MacWhinney, 1999, Elman et al. 1998) The most coherent of these alternative views, postulate cultural evolution as the main mechanism to generate the grammatical complexity of human languages (see figure 1) Several studies have shown that, if in a population of learners language elements are transmitted ....
MACWHINNEY, B. (1999). The emergence of language from embodiment. In: The emergence of language ( MacWhinney, B., ed.). Lawrence Erlbaum.
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MacWhinney, B. (1999). The emergence of language from embodiment. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), Emergentist perspectives on language acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
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