The Origin of Speech.

Hockett, C. F. (1960). The Origin of Speech. Scientific American, 203(3), 88-96.

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Journal article

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Year

1960

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-origin-of-speech/

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linguistics_semiotics

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Primes

• 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.

• 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.

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