From Gesture to Speech

One of the major problems concerning the evolution of human language is to understand how sounds became associated to meaningful gestures. It has been proposed that the circuit controlling gestures and speech evolved from a circuit involved in the control of arm and mouth movements related to ingest...

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Main Authors: Maurizio Gentilucci, Elisa De Stefani, Alessandro Innocenti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2012-11-01
Series:Biolinguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5964/bioling.8925