Bob Dickerson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bob Dickerson plays a role.
Article
2001 The segmentation of speech and its implications for the emergence of language structure Evolution of Communication 4:2, pp. 161–182 | Article
This paper reports a phenomenon supporting the hypothesis that the emergence of structure in the evolution of language was a staged process. To develop a grammatical structure it seems necessary to first have discrete constituents which can be the building blocks of a hierarchical system. By… read more