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2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. Introduction

Current Work and Open Problems: A Road-Map for Research into the Emergence of Communication and Language

Authors : Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Caroline Lyon, Angelo Cangelosi

Published in: Emergence of Communication and Language

Publisher: Springer London

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This book brings together work on the emergence of communication and language from researchers working in a broad array of scientific paradigms in North America, Europe, Japan and Africa.

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Or a modifier, where modification plays a role, e.g. specifying a constraint on reference within consituent syntactic structure, and is then generally less marked than predication.
 
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For many more details and computational modelling, see the Fluid Construction Grammar website of his research group at http://​arti.​vub.​ac.​be/​FCG/​.
 
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Metadata
Title
Introduction
Authors
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Caroline Lyon
Angelo Cangelosi
Copyright Year
2007
Publisher
Springer London
Book
Emergence of Communication and Language

Print ISBN: 978-1-84628-491-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-84628-779-4

Copyright Year: 2007

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-779-4_1

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