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Record W2227629781 · doi:10.1075/slcs.144.16bou

Arbitrary signs and the emergence of language

2013· book-chapter· en· W2227629781 on OpenAlexaff
Denis Bouchard

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in language companion series · 2013
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLanguage and cultural evolution
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCognitive sciencePerceptionComputer scienceHuman languageSign systemHuman brainProperty (philosophy)Expression (computer science)NeurosciencePsychologyCommunicationLinguisticsEpistemologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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The question of the origin of language is difficult to answer since language is involved in a complex way in all human activities. Yet it can be answered if we concentrate on the design properties of the linguistic sign and how they relate to recently discovered properties that are unique to the human brain. Human language is the result of a cascade of consequences from a suite of minute neurological changes that give some human neuronal systems a new “representational” capacity. These changes make sense in evolution, and there is empirical evidence for them. These uniquely human systems of neurons have the capacity to operate offline for input as well as output (Hurley 2008): they can be triggered not only by external events stimulating our perceptual systems but also by brain-internal events; they can also be activated while inhibiting output to any external (motoric) system. These Offline Brain Systems are not specifically designed for language but they provide the crucial property that made it possible for further innovations to occur that led to language; they coincidentally allowed mental states corresponding to elements of the perceptual and conceptual substances of language to meet in our brains to form Saussurean signs. Recursivity derives from the self-organization triggered by the chaotic system that emerged, and required no innovation in the human lineage. Keywords: Offline neuronal systems; Saussurean signs; self-organization; recursivity

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.532
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.333
Teacher spread0.291 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2013
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