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28 mar 2023 · Thus, while the dominating role of the vocal–auditory modality remains indisputable, progress in the field was made toward developing multimodal theories of language origin, which aid in unifying disparate evidence in support of different single-modality theories under a single governing principle.
26 paź 2020 · Five such approaches derive from (1) knowledge of modern languages, (2) understanding communication among nonhumans, (3) the anatomical basis of speech production and reception, (4) archaeological evidence for symbol use, (5) and the recognition that language and human cognition can be understood in the context of evolutionary argument.
1 sty 2016 · The most distinctive hallmark of human spoken word recognition (SWR) is its perceptual robustness to the presence of acoustic variability in the transmission and reception of the talker’s linguistic message.
2 maj 2018 · This special issue provides an interdisciplinary view on contemporary language evolution research. It opens with two articles, those of Nathalie Gontier and Francesco Suman, which address epistemological issues concerning the relation between theory of evolution and language origin research.
1 sty 2013 · PDF | This chapter is a selective comparative and critical survey of speculations/hypotheses, since Antiquity, on the phylogenetic emergence of language... | Find, read and cite all the research...
Second, we present four theories concerning the origins of language: the vocal theory, the gestural theory, the multimodal theory and the multicausal theory. We propose an evolutionary scenario for the origins of language.
David McNeill challenges the popular 'gesture-first' theory that language first emerged in a gesture-only form and proposes a groundbreaking theory of the evolution of language which explains how speech and gesture became unified.
