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Reflections on the “gesture-first” hypothesis of language origins
The main lines of evidence taken as support for the “gesture-first” hypothesis of language origins are briefly evaluated, and the problem that speech poses for this hypothesis is discussed. I conclude that language must have evolved in the oral–aural and kinesic modalities together, with neither mod...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5325861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27439503 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1117-3 |
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| description | The main lines of evidence taken as support for the “gesture-first” hypothesis of language origins are briefly evaluated, and the problem that speech poses for this hypothesis is discussed. I conclude that language must have evolved in the oral–aural and kinesic modalities together, with neither modality taking precedence over the other. |
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| spelling | pubmed-53258612017-03-09 Reflections on the “gesture-first” hypothesis of language origins Kendon, Adam Psychon Bull Rev Article The main lines of evidence taken as support for the “gesture-first” hypothesis of language origins are briefly evaluated, and the problem that speech poses for this hypothesis is discussed. I conclude that language must have evolved in the oral–aural and kinesic modalities together, with neither modality taking precedence over the other. Springer US 2016-07-20 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5325861/ /pubmed/27439503 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1117-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
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| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5325861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27439503 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1117-3 |
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