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., Okanoya, Kazuo, Bolhuis, Johan J., Beckers, Gabriel J. L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Frontiers Research Foundation 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85969
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1061-1871