LaCroix, Travis (2021) Reflexivity, Functional Reference, and Modularity: Alternative Targets for Language Origins. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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Researchers in language origins typically try to explain how compositional communication might evolve to bridge the gap between animal communication and natural language. However, as an explanatory target, compositionality has been shown to be problematic for a gradualist approach to the evolution of language. In this paper, I suggest that reflexivity provides an apt and plausible alternative target which does not succumb to the problems that compositionality faces. I further explain how proto-reflexivity, which depends upon functional reference, gives rise to complex communication systems via modular composition.
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| Keywords: | reflexivity, language origins, explanatory targets, functional reference, modular composition, compositionality, animal communication | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Cultural Evolution General Issues > Game Theory |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Travis LaCroix | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2021 04:07 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2021 04:07 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 19797 | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1086/715217 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1086/715217 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Cultural Evolution General Issues > Game Theory |
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| Date: | 2021 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19797 |
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