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12 sie 2021 · Jean Aitchison explores the origins of human language and how it has evolved. She likens the search to a vast prehistoric jigsaw puzzle, in which numerous fragments of evidence must be assembled.
15 lis 2016 · We propose and define several new concepts under the categories of contact-based scenarios and non-contact based scenarios such as the autochthonous origin of languages, the spread of...
1 maj 2018 · PDF | On May 2, 2018, Francesco Ferretti and others published Introduction: Origin and Evolution of Language—An Interdisciplinary Perspective | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
language began with a theory of ‘speaking’. The deep motivation for that theory was to provide the psychological foundations for an explanation of the evolutionary origins of language. Historically speaking, therefore, the psycholinguist’s primary ‘window on language genesis’ was the microgenesis of utterances in the speaker’s mind ...
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.
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 ground-breaking theory of the evolution of language which explains how speech and gesture became unified.
