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Structuring unleashed expression: Developmental foundations of human communication
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2023
Abstract
The target article highlights the sources of open-endedness of human communication. However, the authors' perspective does not account for the structure of particular communication systems. To this end, we extend the authors' perspective, in the spirit of evolutionary extended synthesis, with a detailed account of the sources of constraints imposed upon expression in the course of child development.
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