Discussion Details
| Title: | Redundancy and Evolution |
| Submitter: | Alex Marsden |
| Description: | Hello,
I was recently studying redundancy on a psycholinguistics module. I was wondering if anyone knows of any research done on evolution in relation to redundancy? I read that after listening to someone speak, the listener will - on average - have forgotten around 50% of what has been said (Fiske, 1982: 11). I suggested that this could have been the reason for humans adopting function words to complement the content words - as if the person deletes the function words as they listen, they will simply be left with the content words and the actual intended meaning of the utterance. Can anyone give me anymore information on this? Thanks - Alex Marsden Fiske, J. (1982) Introduction to Communication Studies, USA: Methuen and Co. |
| Date Posted: | 17-Jan-2007 |
| Linguistic Field(s): | Psycholinguistics |
| LL Issue: | 18.176 |
| Posted: | 17-Jan-2007 |
