Why is language well-designed for communication? (Commentary on Christiansen and Chater: 'Language as shaped by the brain')

Autor:	Dessalles, Jean-Louis
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Computer Science - Computation and Language Quantitative Biology - Neurons and Cognition
Zdroj:	Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31, 5 (2008) 518-519
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Selection through iterated learning explains no more than other non-functional accounts, such as universal grammar, why language is so well-designed for communicative efficiency. It does not predict several distinctive features of language like central embedding, large lexicons or the lack of iconicity, that seem to serve communication purposes at the expense of learnability. Comment: jld-08041101
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4297 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv