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Levelt, W. J. M. (2018). Is language natural to man? Some historical considerations. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 21, 127-131. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.04.003.
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Since the Enlightenment period, natural theories of speech and language evolution have florished in the language sciences. Four ever returning core issues are highlighted in this paper: Firstly, Is language natural to man or just an invention? Secondly, Is language a specific human ability (a ‘language instinct’) or does it arise from general cognitive capacities we share with other animals? Thirdly, Has the evolution of language been a gradual process or did it rather suddenly arise, due to some ‘evolutionary twist’? Lastly, Is the child's language acquisition an appropriate model for language evolution? -
Levelt, W. J. M., & Flores d'Arcais, G. B. (1975). Some psychologists' reactions to the Symposium of Dynamic Aspects of Speech Perception. In A. Cohen, & S. Nooteboom (
Eds. ), Structure and process in speech perception (pp. 345-351). Berlin: Springer. -
Levelt, W. J. M. (1975). Systems, skills and language learning. In A. Van Essen, & J. Menting (
Eds. ), The context of foreign language learning (pp. 83-99). Assen: Van Gorcum. -
Levelt, W. J. M., & Kempen, G. (1975). Semantic and syntactic aspects of remembering sentences: A review of some recent continental research. In A. Kennedy, & W. Wilkes (
Eds. ), Studies in long term memory (pp. 201-216). New York: Wiley. -
Levelt, W. J. M. (1975). What became of LAD? [Essay]. Lisse: Peter de Ridder Press.
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Levelt, W. J. M., Riemersma, J. B., & Bunt, A. A. (1972). Binaural additivity of loudness. British Journal of Mathematical & Statistical Psychology, 25, 51-68.
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Levelt, W. J. M. (1972). [Review of the book Psychometric methods in the study of meaning]. Contemporary Psychology, 17, 586-587.
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Review of S. Fillenbaum and A. Rapoport, Structures in the subjective lexicon -
Levelt, W. J. M. (1972). Hans Hörmann, Psycholinguistics: An introduction to research and theory [Book review]. Nijmeegs tijdschrift voor psychologie, 20(3), 168-169.
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Levelt, W. J. M. (1972). Some psychological aspects of linguistic data. Linguistische Berichte, 17, 18-30.
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