Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35259991›Full record

ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2022

Gesture is the primary modality for language creation.

Nicolas Fay, Bradley Walker, T Mark Ellison, Zachary Blundell, Naomi De Kleine, Murray Garde, Casey J Lister, Susan Goldin-Meadow

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Nicolas FaySchool of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-9866-2800
Bradley WalkerSchool of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
T Mark EllisonCollaborative Research Centre for Linguistic Prominence, University of Cologne, Cologne, NRW, Germany.
Zachary BlundellSchool of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
Naomi De KleineSchool of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
Murray GardeSchool of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Casey J ListerSchool of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
Susan Goldin-MeadowDepartment of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How language began is one of the oldest questions in science, but theories remain speculative due to a lack of direct evidence. Here, we report two experiments that generate empirical evidence to inform gesture-first and vocal-first theories of language origin; in each, we tested modern humans' ability to communicate a range of meanings (995 distinct words) using either gesture or non-linguistic vocalization. Experiment 1 is a cross-cultural study, with signal Producers sampled from Australia (

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HominidaeVoiceAdultAnimalsGesturesHumansLanguageLanguage Developmentgestureiconlanguage evolutionlanguage originuniversalvocalization

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PMID35259991
PMCPMC8905156

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