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author = {James Hurford},
title = {The Emergence of Syntax},
booktitle = {Approaches to the Evolution of Language},
year = {2000},
pages = {299--304},
publisher = {University Press}
}
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n the basis of pre-existing semantic representations (Bickerton, Kirby, Hurford). ffl Protolanguage evolves into language via stages of holistic/formulaic expression (Kirby, Hurford, Wray). ffl Syntactic rules emerge from unstructured data via a new breed of learners, capable of segmentation and generalization (Wray, Kirby). ffl Items of linguistic structure are selected and perpetuated in the historical cycle of language transmission by mechanisms favouring generality (Kirby, Hurford, Worden). ffl The processes of language evolution through a historical cycle of learning and exemplification are modelled computationally (Kirby, Hurford, Worden). One might have expected syntactic theorists to have been prominent in the literature on human evolution, given that what is most remarkable about humans is their capacity for syntactically complex language. But until very recently, syntactic theorists have kept away from evolutionary
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