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Language did not spring forth 100,000 years ago.
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- Differentiation Between Agents and Patients in the Putative Two-Word Stage of Language Evolution.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The Duality of Patterning in Language and its Relationship to Reading in Children with Hearing Loss.Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groups · 2020Article
- A model of the transition to behavioural and cognitive modernity using reflexively autocatalytic networks.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020Article
- From Physical Aggression to Verbal Behavior: Language Evolution and Self-Domestication Feedback Loop.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- The Minimalist Program and the Origin of Language: A View From Paleoanthropology.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- Systems Underlying Human and Old World Monkey Communication: One, Two, or Infinite.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- Speech, stone tool-making and the evolution of language.PloS one · 2018Article
- Language: UG or not to be, that is the question.PLoS biology · 2015Article
- The brain dynamics of linguistic computation.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
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Abstract
In response to an Essay by Johan Bolhuis and co-authors, Phillip Lieberman contends that rather than arising from a key recent innovation ("merge"), language arose by gradual evolution of ancient capabilities.
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