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1. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleLanguage evolution: How language was built and made to evolve

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   Sep 1, 2017 · Like writing, language was built step by step and it was built by a population without a linguistically prewired brain. Unlike the creator of Esperanto and also unlike Kanzi, Alex the parrot, and the Hungarian dogs recently in the news (Andics et al. 2016), the incipient speakers did not have access to constituted language. The only linguistic ...

   • Author: Bernard H. Bichakjian

   • Publish Year: 2017

2. www.researchgate.net › profile › Bernard-BichakjianThe Darwinian-Like Evolution of Language From Near Incipient ...

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   ent speakers brought to the task of cobbling a linguistic system their experience from a holistic perception of the outside world. The resulting implements were, in the course of evolution,

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   Jan 1, 2014 · Not only that, but B&C no longer claim that Neanderthals did not have language. Instead, B&C now say that it is the ‘$64,000 question whether Neandertals [End Page 992] had language’ (50).

5. theconversation.com › when-was-talking-invented-aWhen was talking invented? A language scientist explains how ...

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   Aug 8, 2022 · The truth is, no one knows for sure when talking was “invented.” It’s a big mystery. But as a language scientist for 15 years, I can tell you our best guess about when people started talking ...

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6. theconversation.com › when-did-humans-first-startWhen did humans first start to speak? How language evolved in ...

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   Dec 11, 2022 · When did humans first begin to speak, which speech sounds were uttered first, and when did language evolve from those humble beginnings? These questions have long fascinated people, especially in ...

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7. www.newscientist.com › science-events › dawn-of-languageThe dawn of language - New Scientist

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   Jun 9, 2022 · Join Sverker Johansson as he reveals the first speakers, what they talked about and in what language. He will explore how we went from the early communication to the full diversity of modern ...

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   Did incipient speakers have access to constituted language?

   • Unlike the creator of Esperanto and also unlike Kanzi, Alex the parrot, and the Hungarian dogs recently in the news (Andics et al. 2016), the incipient speakers did not have access to constituted language. The only linguistic material to which they had access was what they were creating.

   Language evolution: How language was built and made to evolve

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   Is language built by a population without a linguistic prewired brain?

   • Like writing, language was built step by step and it was built by a population without a linguistically prewired brain. Unlike the creator of Esperanto and also unlike Kanzi, Alex the parrot, and the Hungarian dogs recently in the news (Andics et al. 2016), the incipient speakers did not have access to constituted language.

   Language evolution: How language was built and made to evolve

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   Was language invented?

   • Because language is unique to humans and so different from anything else in the animal kingdom, researchers don’t really think language was invented; instead we think it evolved during human beings’ evolution from other apes. So to find out when talking started, you have to look back to when humans first evolved.

   When was talking invented? A language scientist explains how this

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   Why were linguistic devices tinkered?

   • What the foregoing tried to do was to argue that the initial linguistic devices were cobbled by incipient speakers without linguistically wired brains. Their brain was wired for the sensory mapping of the outside world, and it is on the basis of that mapping that the initial linguistic devices were tinkered.

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   How did language evolve?

   • The evolution of language The foregoing presentation of the evolution of writing from concrete to abstract implements was meant to serve as a tangible illustration of the evolution of language. Like writing, language was built step by step and it was built by a population without a linguistically prewired brain.

   Language evolution: How language was built and made to evolve

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   How was language built?

   • Language was built piece by piece through a cross fertilizing spiral whereby each step in the construction of language reinforced our potential for language and each step in the advancement of our potential for language made the advancement of language possible.

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9. www.cambridge.org › core › booksWho Are These Speakers, Where Do They Come From, and How Did ...

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   Jul 20, 2018 · Heritage Languages and their Speakers - August 2018. This chapter discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers, or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from one language (their heritage language) to their dominant language (the language of their speech community).