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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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Loreto, Vittorio, Pietro Gravino, Vito D. P. Servedio, and Francesca Tria. "On the Emergence of Syntactic Structures: Quantifying and Modeling Duality of Patterning." Topics in Cognitive Science 8, no. 2 (2016): 469–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tops.12193.

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Veneziano, Edy, Hermine Sinclair, and Ioanna Berthoud. "From one word to two words: repetition patterns on the way to structured speech." Journal of Child Language 17, no. 3 (1990): 633–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900010928.

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ABSTRACTThis paper gives an account of the transition from one-word to multiword utterances based on the productions of one child from age 1;5.23 to 1;8.15 in spontaneous interaction with her mother. The authors' interpretation of the observed development emphasizes: (1) the initial dissociation and later co-ordination of temporal chaining of elements on the one hand and meaning-relatedness between elements on the other; and (2) the psychological importance of repetition patterns for the change from single-word functioning to meaning-related and temporally-chained multi-word utterances, i.e. u

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Nittrouer, Susan. "The Duality of Patterning in Language and Its Relationship to Reading in Children With Hearing Loss." Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 5, no. 6 (2020): 1400–1409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2020_persp-20-00029.

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Purpose Duality of patterning has long been recognized as a unique design feature of human language and refers to the distinct bilevel structure in which words comprise one level (semantic) and word-internal, phonetic elements comprise the other level (phonological). This report describes this design feature and offers a perspective on why and how it should help shape reading interventions for children with hearing loss. Method Three components comprise this report. The first main section offers an overview of duality of patterning. The second main section reviews results from a longitudinal s

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Giudice, Alex Del. "The emergence of duality of patterning through iterated learning: Precursors to phonology in a visual lexicon." Language and Cognition 4, no. 4 (2012): 381–418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/langcog-2012-0020.

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AbstractDuality of Patterning, one of Hockett's (1960) proposed design features unique to human language, refers in part to the arrangements of a relatively small stock of distinguishable meaningless sounds which are combined to create a potentially infinite set of morphemes. Literature regarding the emergence of this design feature is less abundant than that exploring other levels of structure as focus is more often given to the emergence of syntax. In an effort to explore where combinatorial structure of meaningless elements arises the results of two pilot experiments are presented within wh

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Aronoff, Mark, Irit Meir, Carol A. Padden, and Wendy Sandler. "The roots of linguistic organization in a new language." Interaction Studies 9, no. 1 (2008): 133–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/is.9.1.10aro.

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It is possible for a language to emerge with no direct linguistic history or outside linguistic influence. Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) arose about 70 years ago in a small, insular community with a high incidence of profound prelingual neurosensory deafness. In ABSL, we have been able to identify the beginnings of phonology, morphology, syntax, and prosody. The linguistic elements we find in ABSL are not exclusively holistic, nor are they all compositional, but a combination of both. We do not, however, find in ABSL certain features that have been posited as essential even for a prot

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Fowler, Carol A. "Meaning in Phonology and Other Departures from Modularity in the Living Language." Psychology of Language and Communication 20, no. 2 (2016): 112–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/plc-2016-0007.

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Abstract I review evidence of three kinds relating to leakages in modularity within language domains and between linguistic and nonlinguistic action. One kind of evidence shows that the form-meaning “rift” in language that enables the important principle of duality of patterning and the particulate principle of self-diversifying systems is bridged in many ways. Segmental language forms have iconic meanings, and form-meaning correlations of other kinds emerge cross linguistically. A second kind of evidence occurs in parallel transmission of linguistic prosodic information with iconic and emotio

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Radovanović, Ivana. "Houses and burials at Lepenski Vir." European Journal of Archaeology 3, no. 3 (2000): 330–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/146195700807860918.

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Houses and burials recorded in the settlements of Lepenski Vir I and II and burials previously ascribed to Lepenski Vir III are here discussed in view of the recent analyses of archaeological material and re-analyses of the field burial record from this site. Evidence of pottery in situ in houses of Lepenski Vir I, together with the evidence for important dietary change in the Lepenski Vir community in the course of the second half of the seventh millennium cal BC, reinforces the assumption, made by a number of scholars over several previous decades, of intensive contacts between early Neolith

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Rozov, Nikolai S. "Anthropological Roots of Linguistic Universals." Chelovek 33, no. 4 (2022): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s023620070021631-1.

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This article is devoted to the theoretical analysis of the mechanisms and regularities of origins of languages universals. The universals are treated in the classical interpretation of C. Hockett (1962) include traditional transmission, arbitrariness, productivity/openness; displacement, semanticity, and discreteness of signs; duality of patterning. The universals contrast against the widest variety of features found by linguists in the analysis of languages including those that are very different from the &quot;average European standard&quot;. Seven theses present an emerging paradigm

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Schaden, Gerhard, and Cédric Patin. "Semiotic systems with duality of patterning and the issue of cultural replicators." History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 40, no. 1 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-017-0167-9.

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Wendy, Sandler. "THE CHALLENGE OF SIGN LANGUAGE PHONOLOGY." January 14, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.835409.

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Comparing phonology in spoken language and sign language reveals that core properties such as features, feature categories, the syllable, and constraints on form, exist in both naturally occurring language modalities. But apparent ubiquity can be deceptive. The features themselves are quintessentially different, and key properties, such as linearity and arbitrariness, while universal, occur in inverse proportions to their counterparts, simultaneity and iconicity, in the two modalities. Phonology does not appear full-blown in a new sign language, but it does gradually emerge, accruing linguisti

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Christiansen, Morten H., and Nick Chater. "The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39 (April 14, 2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x1500031x.

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AbstractMemory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal with this “Now-or-Never” bottleneck, the brain must compress and recode linguistic input as rapidly as possible. This observation has strong implications for the nature of language processing: (1) the language system must “eagerly” recode and compress linguistic input; (2) as the bottleneck recurs at each new representational level, the language system must build a multilevel linguistic representation; a

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Kirby, Simon, and Monica Tamariz. "Cumulative cultural evolution, population structure and the origin of combinatoriality in human language." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 377, no. 1843 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0319.

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Language is the primary repository and mediator of human collective knowledge. A central question for evolutionary linguistics is the origin of the combinatorial structure of language (sometimes referred to as duality of patterning), one of language’s basic design features. Emerging sign languages provide a promising arena to study the emergence of language properties. Many, but not all such sign languages exhibit combinatoriality, which generates testable hypotheses about its source. We hypothesize that combinatoriality is the inevitable result of learning biases in cultural transmission, and

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Rost, Marcel J., Leon Jacobse, and Marc T. M. Koper. "The dualism between adatom- and vacancy-based single crystal growth models." Nature Communications 10, no. 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13188-0.

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AbstractIn homoepitaxial crystal growth, four basic growth morphologies (idealized growth modes) have been established that describe the deposition of atoms on single crystal surfaces: step-flow, layer-by-layer, mound formation, and random/self-affine growth. Mound formation leads to nano-scale surface patterning. However, the formation of (nano)-islands, patterns, and roughness occurs also during ion bombardment, electrochemical etching and oxidation/reduction cycling. Here we show, in analogy to many particle/anti-particle formalisms in physics, the existence of the dualism between individua

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