A new model of early language acquisition is introduced. The model demonstrates the staged emergence of lexical and syntactic acquisition. For a period, no linguistic activity is present. The emergence of first words signals the onset of the holophrastic stage that continues to mature without syntactic activity. Syntactic awareness eventually emerges as the result of multiple lexically-based in...

The paper is focused on studying regularities of holophrastic constructions’ functioning in the English literary prose by means identifying and classifying most significant features their linguistic characteristics expression. Holophrastic construction regarded as a synthetically formed composite lexical unit that combines word, word-combination, or sentence, which figuratively but precisely re...

There is an ongoing debate as to whether the words in early presyntactic forms of human language had simple atomic meanings like modern words, or whether they were holophrastic. Simulations were conducted using an iterated learning model in which the agents were able to associate words with meanings, but in which they were not able to use syntactic rules to combine words into phrases or sentenc...

There is an ongoing debate as to whether the words in early pre-syntactic forms of human language had simple atomic meanings like modern words (Bickerton, 1990, 1996), or whether they were holophrastic (Wray, 1998, 2000). Simulations were conducted using an iterated learning model in which the agents were able to associate words with meanings, but in which they were not able to use syntactic ru...

The present study aims at the description and analysis of the phonological and lexical development of a child who is acquiring Farsi as his first language. The child's language production at the holophrastic stage of language development, mainly single words, is observed and recorded longitudinally for nearly seven months since he was 16 months old until he turned 23 months. An attempt is made ...

The article advances a hypothetic-and-cognitive model of holophrastic constructions’ decoding by the recipient’s consciousness as well as describes their speech generating function based on cognitive and probabilistic processes running under the control of individual’s consciousness

There is an ongoing debate about whether the words in the first languages spoken by humans expressed single concepts or complex holophrases. A computer model was used to investigate the nature of the protolanguages that would arise if speakers could associate words and meanings, but lacked any productive ability beyond saying the word whose past uses most closely matched the meaning that they w...

Holophrasis is an occasional type of lexical and syntactic method word formation in which a unit transformed into one. Holophrastic constructions (HCs) are productive English French writing. HCs typically used to enhance expressiveness, conciseness, accuracy In this study, we examined the language modern writers terms their structure, semantics, graphical representation, functions. To achieve g...

This paper describes our ongoing work in and thoughts on developing a grammar learning system based on a construction grammar formalism. Necessary modules are presented and first results and challenges in formalizing the grammar are shown up. Furthermore, we point out the major reasons why we chose construction grammar as the most fitting formalism for our purposes. Then our approach and ideas ...