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Abstract

Natural selection is claimed to be the only way to explain complex design. The same assumption has also been held for language. However, sciences of complex-ity have shown, from a wide range of domains, the existence of a clear alternative: self-organisation, spontaneous patterns of order arising from chaos. According to this view, design derives from internal factors (dynamic interaction of the ele-ments within the system) rather than from adaptation to the environment by means of selection. This paper aims to apply sciences of complexity to language origins; it shows that preexisting and well established ideas can be rethought ac-cording to such a view. The main objective of the paper is to illustrate the new and promising horizons that complexity could open as regards the origins of the most specific property of human beings.

@article{longa01jls,
  author={Victor M. Longa},
  title={Sciences of complexity and language origins: an alternative to natural selection},
  journal={Journal of Literary Semantics},
  year={2001},
  volume={30},
  number={1},
  pages={1-17},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/longa01jls.html}
}

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