the social gossip hypothesis - grooming from a distance, social cohesion at minimal cost, natural selection
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Pinker & Bloom (1990)
Communication of complex propositions - sharing information/communicative intent, sharing knowledge, social function as well
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Chomsky (2011)
Representing complex thought - external language is secondary to internalised thoughts - recursion is a key component, may have evolved for something else e.g. navigation - macro mutation
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Corballis (2009)
language evolved from gestures - embodied system, visual to speech to make communication more efficient
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Bickerton (1990)
language origins on vocalisations - protolanguage = vocal tokens, no syntax e.g. motherese
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Fitch (2009)
derived from musical communication - imitation of sounds then add meaning
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Gardener & Gardener (1960s)
taught monkey 151 signs, some semantic understanding, no grammar!
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Vargha-Khaaem et al (1998)
family with FOXP2 gene mutation, split from monkeys 50,000 years ago - language?! removal in finches = incomplete song
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Pinker (1994)
developmental dysphasia vs williams syndrome
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Communication of complex propositions - sharing information/communicative intent, sharing knowledge, social function as well
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Pinker & Bloom (1990)
Card 3
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Representing complex thought - external language is secondary to internalised thoughts - recursion is a key component, may have evolved for something else e.g. navigation - macro mutation
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Card 4
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language evolved from gestures - embodied system, visual to speech to make communication more efficient
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Card 5
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language origins on vocalisations - protolanguage = vocal tokens, no syntax e.g. motherese
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