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Language evolution in primates

Science
Human speech evolution is not just about having a speech-ready brain and vocal ...
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On the evolution of language and generativity

Cognition, 1992
One of the properties that most conspicuously distinguishes human language from any other form of animal communication is generativity. Language with this property therefore presumably evolved with the Homo line somewhere between H. habilis and H. sapiens sapiens. Some have suggested that it emerged relatively suddenly and completely with H.
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UNRAVELING THE TANGLES OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION

2012
The relationships between languages molded by extremely complex social, cultural and political factors are assessed by an automated method, in which the distance between languages is estimated by the average normalized Levenshtein distance between words from the list of 200 meanings maximally resistant to change.
Petroni F, SERVA, Maurizio, Volchenkov D.   +2 more
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Language Evolution and Robotics

2007
This chapter focuses on recent studies on the origins and evolution of language which have used multiple robot systems as their primary platform. After presenting some theoretical background regarding language evolution and the symbol grounding problem, the chapter discusses a number of themes within the evolutionary linguistics that have been subject ...
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Some speculations on the evolution of language, and the language of evolution

2008
The need for languages to be complete systems suggests that language evolution will be episodic rather than gradual, with periods of stability punctuated by periods of innovation. The example of nicaraguan sign language suggests that such developmental phases can be very rapid. Rapid evolution can create genetic bottlenecks. The differentiation between
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Evolution and Language (1): Language, Experience, and Imagination: The Invention and Evolution of Language

Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 2017
Ever since Chomsky, language has been considered primarily as an individual cognitive capacity. Even linguists who reject Chomsky’s hypotheses accept this assumption. Daniel Dor proposes instead that language is a socially invented communication technology. It differs from all other animal communication systems, including human non-verbal communication,
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Modeling the cultural evolution of language

Physics of Life Reviews, 2011
Luc Steels
exaly  

Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1999
Ray Jackendoff
exaly  

Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008
Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby
exaly  

Animal cognition and the evolution of human language: why we cannot focus solely on communication

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020
W Tecumseh Fitch
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