The integration hypothesis of human language evolution and the nature of contemporary languages

How human language arose is a mystery in the evolution of Homo sapiens. Miyagawa et al. (2013) put forward a proposal, which we will call the Integration Hypothesis of human language evolution, that holds that human language is composed of two components, E for expressive, and L for lexical. Each co...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Miyagawa, Shigeru (Contributor), Ojima, Shiro (Author), Berwick, Robert C. (Contributor), Okanoya, Kazuo (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Foreign Languages and Literatures (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Research Foundation, 2014-06-11T15:31:43Z.
Subjects:
Online Access:Get fulltext