@conference{Kempson.Howes.Eshghi.Hough.Gregoromichelaki_DS_2019, author = "Ruth Kempson and Christine Howes and Arash Eshghi and Julian Hough and Eleni Gregoromichelaki", abstract = "This paper argues that the view of language as affordances promises to solve two problems: (a) the paradox for bottom-up processing that the disjoint stimuli of speech production and perception seem to preclude common explanation; and (b) the problematic status of mediating mental representations facing the alternative anticipatory top-down Predictive Processing perspective. The promised result is an account of language evolution as a mechanism underpinned by interaction without external directive or prior inferential grounding.", booktitle = "The third Dynamic Syntax conference", title = "{R}eflections on language, cognition, normativity and evolution", url = "http://www.christinehowes.com/papers/Kempson.etal_DS_2019.pdf", year = "2019", }