A Bird's Eye View of Human Language Evolution

Comparative studies of linguistic faculties in animals pose an evolutionary paradox: language involves certain perceptual and motor abilities, but it is not clear that this serves as more than an input-output channel for the externalization of language proper. Strikingly, the capability for auditory...

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Main Authors: Berwick, Robert C. (Contributor), Okanoya, Kazuo (Author), Bolhuis, Johan J. (Author), Beckers, Gabriel J. L. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Research Foundation, 2014-03-28T18:54:26Z.
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