Los sistemas combinatorios animales no tienen dualidadHockett tenía razón

  1. Víctor M. Longa 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

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Revista:
Pragmalinguistica

ISSN: 1133-682X

Ano de publicación: 2015

Número: 23

Páxinas: 122-141

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.25267/PRAGMALINGUISTICA.2015.I23.07 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

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Resumo

Duality of patterning is a central property of language. Half a century ago, Charles Hockett compared animal communication and language by means of his well-known system of design features, and contended that duality was one of the few features animal communication was not endowed with. Since then, a number of scholars (especially, linguists), have considered duality to exist in some animal communication systems which exhibit a combinatorial nature, in such a way that signals are composed of smaller units. This article critically discusses those proposals; more concretely, it makes the point that the hierarchical-combinatorial procedure found in animal combinatorial systems greatly differs from that found in language, the result being that those systems lack duality. Therefore, the paper vindicates Hockett’s position, by arguing that he was fully right when he asserted that duality is absent from animal communication

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