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On The Evolving Biology Of Language ...
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Some language scientists defend an anti-Darwin account and believe in the saltational evolution of modern language. They emphasize that the language faculty emerged by a sudden mutation in the last 50–100 ky (e.g., Klein, 2000; Chomsky, 2012, 2015; Berwick et al., 2013). In contrast, others claim that modern language is the product of a gradual co-evolution of neurobiological and cultural-linguistic conditions, which took place since genus Pan was separated for good from the hominin lineage about 4–6 mya (e.g., Pinker and Bloom, 1990; Pinker, 1994; Deacon, 1997; Dor and Jablonka, 2001; Falk, 2004; Enfield and Levinson, 2006; Levinson and Jaisson, 2006; Christiansen and Chater, 2008; Atkinson, 2011; Dunn et al., 2011; Dediu and Levinson, 2014). New genetic evidence and their interpretation in context of fossil and artifact discoveries shed however light on this controversy. The data indicate that pre-modern language might have been already spoken by Homo erectus. Moreover, we conclude that the sister species ...
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Homo erectus, ARHGAP11B, SRGAP2, cultural evolution, biological disposition, brain development, language evolution, Neanderthals
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URL: https://zenodo.org/record/1327221 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1327221
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Sentence processing : a crosslinguistic perspective
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MPI-SHH Linguistik
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