The Emergence of Language

Mark Steedman

doi:10.1111/mila.12160

The Emergence of Language

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This paper argues that the faculty of language comes essentially for free in evolutionary terms, grace of a capacity shared with some evolutionarily quite distantly related animals for deliberatively planning action in the world. The reason humans have language of a kind that animals do not, is because of a qualitative difference in the nature of human plans, rather than anything unique to language.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	579-590
Number of pages	18
Journal	Mind and Language
Volume	32
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12160
Publication status	Published - 14 Nov 2017

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SEMANTAX-Form-Independent Semantics for Natural Language Understanding
Steedman, M.
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1/08/17 → 31/07/23
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