Sonia Ragir
2009
Playing With Meaning: Normative Function and Structure in Play
The Prehistory Of Language 7.0, 2009
2008
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31(5):514-515, 2008
Languages emerge in response to the negotiation of shared meaning in social groups, where transparency of grammar is necessitated by demands of communication with relative strangers needing to consult on a wide range of topics (Ragir 2002). This communal exchange is automated and ...MORE ⇓
Languages emerge in response to the negotiation of shared meaning in social groups, where transparency of grammar is necessitated by demands of communication with relative strangers needing to consult on a wide range of topics (Ragir 2002). This communal exchange is automated and stabilized through activity-dependent fine-tuning of information-specific neural connections during postnatal growth and social development.
2002
Constraints on Communities with Indigenous Sign Languages: Clues to the Dynamics of Language Genesis
The Transition to Language 13.0, 2002