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In linguistics, a discontinuity occurs when a given word or phrase is separated from another word or phrase that it modifies in such a manner that a direct connection cannot be established between the two without incurring crossing lines in the tree structure.
- Evolution-Free Discontinuity
- Gradual Evolutionary Continuity
- Punctuationist Evolutionary Approach
The “Universal Grammar” (UG) hypothesis, originally proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1950s, has been the predominant model in linguistics and in the largely prevailing tradition of the cognitive science for almost 50 years. The idea that all human languages share fundamental similarities, attributable to innate principles unique to language, has generat...
Two distinguished Chomsky’s pupils, Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom (1990) and Pinker (1994), supported the UG hypothesis to describe human language structure and agreed with Chomsky that human language is a biological, innate and universal “module” hardwired in our mind. Language is an “instinct”, a very complex instinct from an engineering point of ...
In literature we may find another important kind of evolutionary approach to human language, called by Fitch (2012) “punctuationist”, which is very different from the gradualist one, without being evolution-free as Chomsky’s earlier position (see par. 2.1). The punctuationist approach (PA)—recently joined even by Chomsky, but in a non-Darwinian ver...
- Andrea Parravicini, Telmo Pievani
- 2018
Abstract The article reconstructs the main lines of three hypotheses in the current literature concerning the evolu-tionary pace which characterized the natural history of human language: the ‘‘continuist’’ and gradualist perspec-tive, the ‘‘discontinuist’’ and evolution-free perspective, and the ‘‘punctuationist’’ view.
- Andrea Parravicini, Telmo Pievani
- 2018
What are the specific claims of the discontinuity position? Jakobson main-tained that the acquisition of the sound system proper begins when the child recognizes that sounds have distinctive linguistic value (1968:24-5): 'As soon as sound utterances "are employed for the purpose of designation" [Wundt
There are two distinct theoretical positions concerning the development of language over the first two years of life. The first, primarily held by linguists, claims that development over this age span could be discretely divided into a prelinguistic and a linguistic period.
- Paula Menyuk
- 1984
12 sept. 2014 · With a focus on the morphosyntactic features of second language, this book discusses the idea that language acquisition is a discontinuous and 'quantized' process due to the existence of two different – albeit interconnected – ways of learning: Statistical Learning and Grammatical Learning.
1 mars 2000 · A second cause leading scholars to overlook the discontinuity of language transmission stems from the unavoidable absence of concrete reference to real, individual speakers in diachronic studies of linguistic varieties that have little or no depth of historical attestation.
