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Journal articles on the topic "Duality of patterning"

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Ladd, D. Robert. "What is duality of patterning, anyway?" Language and Cognition 4, no. 4 (2012): 261–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/langcog-2012-0015.

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AbstractThe notion of duality of patterning (henceforth DoP), at least for readers of this special issue, is probably most closely associated with Charles F. Hockett's project of identifying the ‘design features’ of language in order to characterise the ways in which human language is unique among biological communication systems (Hockett 1958: chapter 64; Hockett 1960; Hockett and Ascher 1964). Roughly speaking, DoP refers to the fact that the meaningful units of language – words or morphemes – are made up of meaningless units – phonemes or features – whose only function is to distinguish the

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Blevins, Juliette. "Duality of patterning: Absolute universal or statistical tendency?" Language and Cognition 4, no. 4 (2012): 275–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/langcog-2012-0016.

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AbstractAs more of the world's languages are described and compared, more absolute universals have joined the class of statistical tendencies. However, few have questioned the universality of the duality of patterning. Following Hockett, most linguists assume that in all human languages, discrete meaningless parts combine to form meaningful units that, themselves, recombine. However, an alternative interpretation, explored in this article, is that duality, like other proposed linguistic universals, is a statistical tendency reflecting a complex set of factors, and most centrally, the need for

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Pulleyblank, Edwin G. "Duality of Patterning: Responding to Armstrong & Stokoe." Sign Language Studies 1055, no. 1 (1987): 175–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sls.1987.0010.

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Veltman, Robert. "The silence of the words." Functions of Language 5, no. 1 (1998): 57–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.5.1.04vel.

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This study argues for a reformulation of the semiotic and characteristically linguistic construct of Duality of Patterning. Since the Duality principle was originally formulated, linguists have generally accepted the 'barrier' enshrined in Duality, said to separate the levels of Expression (in particular, its Phonological component) and Wording (Vocabulary and Grammar). However, there was always criticism of the strong formulations of Duality, some from precursors of functional models of language, notably Systemic-Functional Grammar (SFG). On the other hand, although SFG has made a rich and or

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Roberts, Gareth, and Bruno Galantucci. "The emergence of duality of patterning: Insights from the laboratory." Language and Cognition 4, no. 4 (2012): 297–318. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/langcog-2012-0017.

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AbstractThe concept of duality of patterning (henceforth DP) has recently begun to undergo new scrutiny. In particular, the fact that Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) does not appear to exhibit a layer of meaningless units (Sandler et al. 2011) casts doubt on the universality of DP as a defining feature of natural language. Why, then, do the vast majority of the world's languages exhibit DP? Two hypotheses have been suggested. The first is that DP is a necessary solution to the problem of conveying a large number of meanings; the second is that DP arises as a consequence of conventionali

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Verhoef, Tessa. "The origins of duality of patterning in artificial whistled languages." Language and Cognition 4, no. 4 (2012): 357–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/langcog-2012-0019.

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AbstractIn human speech, a finite set of basic sounds is combined into a (potentially) unlimited set of well-formed morphemes. Hockett (1960) placed this phenomenon under the term ‘duality of patterning’ and included it as one of the basic design features of human language. Of the thirteen basic design features Hockett proposed, duality of patterning is the least studied and it is still unclear how it evolved in language. Recent work shedding light on this is summarized in this paper and experimental data is presented. This data shows that combinatorial structure can emerge in an artificial wh

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Tria, Francesca, Bruno Galantucci, and Vittorio Loreto. "Naming a Structured World: A Cultural Route to Duality of Patterning." PLoS ONE 7, no. 6 (2012): e37744. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037744.

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List, Gudula. "Duality of Patterning in Signed & Spoken Language: A Psychological Perspective." Sign Language Studies 1065, no. 1 (1989): 323–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sls.1989.0025.

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de Boer, Bart, Wendy Sandler, and Simon Kirby. "New perspectives on duality of patterning: Introduction to the special issue." Language and Cognition 4, no. 4 (2012): 251–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/langcog-2012-0014.

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Pulleyblank, Edwin G. "The Meaning of Duality of Patterning and its Importance in Language Evolution." Sign Language Studies 1051, no. 1 (1986): 101–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sls.1986.0000.

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Book chapters on the topic "Duality of patterning"

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Fortuny, Jordi. "On the duality of patterning." In Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/la.164.15for.

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Marcus, Solomon. "The Duality of Patterning in Molecular Genetics." In Aspects of Molecular Computing. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24635-0_24.

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Pulleyblank, Edward G. "The meaning of duality of patterning and its importance in language evolution." In Studies in Language Origins. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.los1.07pul.

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Ladd, D. Robert. "On duality of patterning." In Simultaneous Structure in Phonology. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199670970.003.0005.

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Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. "Attempts to Solve the Problems." In The Origins of Complex Language. Oxford University PressOxford, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198238225.003.0004.

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Abstract In this chapter we will look at explanations that have been proposed for the three aspects of human language that this book is concerned with—namely, vocabulary size, duality of patterning, and the sentence/NP distinction. I will argue that no previous explanation accounts satisfactorily for any of these aspects of language individually. A fortiori, no previous explanation accounts satisfactorily for them all in a unified fashion. Some of the proposals discussed here shed light on the relationship between the syntactic sentence/NP distinction and the lexical-cum-semantic noun/verb dis

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Basov, Nikita, and Julia Brennecke. "Duality Beyond Dyads: Multiplex Patterning of Social Ties and Cultural Meanings." In Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/s0733-558x20170000053005.

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Beckman, Mary E. "Connecting prosody and duality of patterning in diachrony, typology, phylogeny, and ontogeny." In Speech Dynamics. De Gruyter, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110765328-016.

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Ladd, D. Robert. "Mid-century American phonology." In The Oxford History of Phonology. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796800.003.0017.

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From the early 1940s to the early 1960s, American phonology, led by Bloch, Trager, and Hockett, was remarkably monolithic. Its practitioners nominally followed Bloomfield, but in practice rejected his clearly expressed views by treating the elements of phonetic transcription (‘phones’) as an intermediate level of abstraction between the phoneme and the physical signal. They also accepted a strong version of what Hockett called ‘duality of patterning’, according to which individual utterances are simultaneously arrangements of phonemes and arrangements of meaningful units; this led to their ins

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Conference papers on the topic "Duality of patterning"

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GALANTUCCI, BRUNO, THEO RHODES, and CHRISTIAN KROOS. "RAPIDITY OF FADING AND THE EMERGENCE OF DUALITY OF PATTERNING." In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference (EVOLANG6). WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812774262_0061.

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TRIA, FRANCESCA, BRUNO GALANTUCCI, and VITTORIO LORETO. "NAMING A STRUCTURED WORLD: A CULTURAL ROUTE TO DUALITY OF PATTERNING." In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference (EVOLANG9). WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789814401500_0128.

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ISRAEL, ASSAF, and WENDY SANDLER. "DUALITY OF PATTERNING AS AN EMERGENT PROPERTY: EVIDENCE FROM A NEW SIGN LANGUAGE." In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8). WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789814295222_0074.

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DEL GIUDICE, ALEX, SIMON KIRBY, and CAROL PADDEN. "RECREATING DUALITY OF PATTERNING IN THE LABORATORY: A NEW EXPERIMENTAL PARADIGM FOR STUDYING EMERGENCE OF SUBLEXICAL STRUCTURE." In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8). WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789814295222_0064.

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