The Evolution of Language in Three Stages

Syntactic language is a uniquely human accomplishment, and must therefore have evolved since the split of the hominins from the other great apes some six million years ago. I argue that there were three main phases. The first came about through the emergence of bipedalism, a distinctively hominin tr...

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Main Author: Michael Corballis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Galenos Yayinevi 2007-06-01
Series:Türk Nöroloji Dergisi
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Online Access:https://www.journalagent.com/tjn/pdfs/TJN_13_3_173_188.pdf