Language, gesture, skill: The co-evolutionary foundations of language
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This paper defends a gestural origins hypothesis about the evolution of enhanced communication and language in the hominin lineage. The paper shows that we can develop an incremental model of language evolution on that hypothesis, but not if we suppose that language originated in an expansion of great ape vocalization. On the basis of the gestural origins hypothesis, the paper then advances solutions to four classic problems about the evolution of language: (i) why did language evolve only in...[Show more]
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Date published: | 2012 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/63096 |
Source: | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B |
DOI: | 10.1098/rstb.2012.0116 |
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