The precedence of syntax in the rapid emergence of human language in evolution as defined by the integration hypothesis

Our core hypothesis is that the emergence of human language arose very rapidly from the linking of two pre-adapted systems found elsewhere in the animal world-an expression system, found, for example, in birdsong, and a lexical system, suggestively found in non-human primate calls (Miyagawa et al.,...

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Main Authors: Nóbrega, Vitor A. (Author), Miyagawa, Shigeru (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Global Languages (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Research Foundation, 2015-03-31T18:07:21Z.
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