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The problematic transition from specific competences to general competence - Commentary on Peter Carruthers: 'The cognitive functions of language'

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Postulating a variety of mutually isolated thought domains for pre-linguistic creatures is both unparsimonious and implausible, requiring unexplained parallel evolution of each separate module. Furthermore, the proposal that domain-general concepts are not accessible without prior exposure to phonetically realized human language utterances cannot be implemented by any concept-acquisition mechanism.

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hal-00616433 , version 1 (22-08-2011)

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James R. Hurford, Jean-Louis Dessalles. The problematic transition from specific competences to general competence - Commentary on Peter Carruthers: 'The cognitive functions of language'. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2002, 25 (6), pp.690-691. ⟨hal-00616433⟩
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