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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Frontiers Research Foundation,
2015-03-31T18:07:21Z.
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