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ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2017

An evolutionary approach to sign language emergence: From state to process.

Yasamin Motamedi, Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby

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Article in The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Yasamin MotamediSchool of Philosophy,Psychology and Language Sciences,Centre for Language Evolution,The University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,EH8 9AD,Scotland,United Kingdom.y.m.motamedi-mousavi@sms.ed.ac.ukmarieke.schouwstra@ed.ac.uksimon@ling.ed.ac.uk.
Marieke SchouwstraSchool of Philosophy,Psychology and Language Sciences,Centre for Language Evolution,The University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,EH8 9AD,Scotland,United Kingdom.y.m.motamedi-mousavi@sms.ed.ac.ukmarieke.schouwstra@ed.ac.uksimon@ling.ed.ac.uk.
Simon KirbySchool of Philosophy,Psychology and Language Sciences,Centre for Language Evolution,The University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh,EH8 9AD,Scotland,United Kingdom.y.m.motamedi-mousavi@sms.ed.ac.ukmarieke.schouwstra@ed.ac.uksimon@ling.ed.ac.uk.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the relationship between gesture, sign, and speech offers a valuable tool for investigating how language emerges from a nonlinguistic state. We propose that the focus on linguistic status is problematic, and a shift to focus on the processes that shape these systems serves to explain the relationship between them and contributes to the central question of how language evolves.

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Language DevelopmentSign LanguageGesturesHumansLanguageSpeech

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