Discussing the evolution of the assorted beasts called language

Botha, Rudolf P.

doi:10.1016/s0271-5309(99)00022-1

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“…Not a proprietary notion of any single discipline, "language" had come to be used differently in each of the involved branches of knowledge, reflecting their respective theoretical interests and biases, and this in turn leading to hidden assumptions. As one example, Rudolph Botha (2000) enumerates thirteen different designations of the term "language" contained in a single edited volume.…”

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The narrow faculty of language: What is it, who has it, and how is it defined?

Wacewicz

2012

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The narrow faculty of language: What is it, who has it, and how is it defined?

Wacewicz

2012

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“…Botha has been as consistent a critic of evolutionary theorizing based upon Chomsky‐Pinker assumptions as you can find in the literature. Although his essays are cogent with respect to their targets of argument, the main problem with his contributions strikes me as his concessions to his critics before he even gets his counter‐arguments underway.…”

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Reflections on the “Darwin‐Descartes” Problem

Coulter

2010

J Theory Soc Behav

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“…Apart from possibilities of integrating all the lines of research related to these fields into linguistic research, the scope of SLE illustrates a more general point -language is not autonomous but part and parcel of a variety of evolutionary, biological and cognitive-behavioural mechanisms (cf. Botha 2000). Figure 4.…”

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How research on language evolution contributes to linguistics

Żywiczyński

2019

Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting

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Since its inception in the second part of the 20th century, the science of language evolution has been exerting a growing and formative pressure on linguistics. More obviously, given its interdisciplinary character, the science of language evolution provides a platform on which linguists can meet and discuss a variety of problems pertaining to the nature of language and ways of investigating it with representatives of other disciplines and research traditions. It was largely in this way that the attention of linguists was attracted to the study of emerging sign languages and gestures, as well as to the resultant reflection on the way different modalities impact communicative systems that use them. But linguistics also benefits from the findings made by language evolution researchers in the context of their own research questions and methodologies. The most important of these findings come out of the experimental research on bootstrapping communication systems and the evolution of communicative structure, and from mass comparison studies that correlate linguists data with a wide range of environmental variables.

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Discussing the evolution of the assorted beasts called language

Cited by 23 publications

References 7 publications

The narrow faculty of language: What is it, who has it, and how is it defined?

The narrow faculty of language: What is it, who has it, and how is it defined?

Reflections on the “Darwin‐Descartes” Problem

How research on language evolution contributes to linguistics

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