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The segmentation of speech and its implications for the emergence of language structure
2001
Evolution of Communication
This paper reports a phenomenon supporting the hypothesis that the emergence of structure in the evolution of language was a staged process. To develop a grammatical structure it seems necessary to first have discrete constituents which can be the building blocks of a hierarchical system. By analysing observed speech we show that the development of a linear sequence of grammatical constituents has its own advantage, before a possible next stage when constituents are integrated into a
doi:10.1075/eoc.4.2.03lyo
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