The Origin of Speech.¶
Hockett, C. F. (1960). The Origin of Speech. Scientific American, 203(3), 88-96.
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- Arbitrariness of Symbolic Conventions
- - Structural linguistics (Saussure 1916, Hockett 1960
This sourceEnumerates the design features of language — including arbitrariness, productivity, displacement, and cultural (traditional) transmission — that taken together separate human language from animal communication systems.
- - Structural linguistics (Saussure 1916, Hockett 1960
- Symbolic Representation
- Linguistics: Phonetic alphabets, word-meaning conventions, grammatical structures, written language; Saussure's signifier/signified dyad and Hockett's (1960) design features of language formalize symbolic representation as the convention-bound, arbitrary, productive, displaceable bedrock of natural language.
This sourceEnumerates the design features of language — arbitrariness, productivity, displacement, cultural transmission, and others — that formalize symbolic representation as the convention-bound, productive, displaceable bedrock of natural language.
- Linguistics: Phonetic alphabets, word-meaning conventions, grammatical structures, written language; Saussure's signifier/signified dyad and Hockett's (1960) design features of language formalize symbolic representation as the convention-bound, arbitrary, productive, displaceable bedrock of natural language.
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