Brett Reynolds
List of John Benjamins publications in which Brett Reynolds is involved.
Article
An attentional-bias account of language emergence Evolutionary Linguistic Theory: Online-First Articles | Article
Why do humans alone develop language? I argue that evolution selected a binding bias, not specialized syntactic machinery: a hyperprior treating addressed, multi-timescale communicative events (infant-directed speech, with eye contact and rhythmic prosody) as reliable evidence. Under active… read more