Humans communicate in a system unlike any other living things. This article aims to answer two fundamental questions about this system, human language; 1) what is it that makes human language so different from other forms of communication? and 2) what has led us to develop such a particular system? Using theoretical and empirical evidence, we show that human language is unique in that it is intrinsically part of cognitive skills and motivation for communication, unlike other forms of communication between living things. This particular system has been developed as a result of the appearance of social cognitive skills and social motivations for communication, both manifested originally through the act of pointing, which we accept as a precur...
Language is the system of meaningful symbols and rules that has endowed us with communicative and co...
Several cognitive accounts of human communication argue for a language-independent, prelinguistic ba...
This article investigates the role that nonverbal actions play in language processing over 3 differe...
The origins of the human language capacity is a much debated topic among scholars. In the late ninet...
It is well known that man is a compound of animal and intelligence that has the capacity to absorb t...
In this survey article, the author refers to the work of Stephen Levinson and Judith Holler, Sławom...
La investigación comparada ha demostrado ser un campo de estudio fructífero sobre la evolución ontog...
Comparative studies about human language and animal communication systems, so as the research...
El origen del lenguaje es uno de los temas que, sin lugar a duda, más debate ha generado en el campo...
"La investigación comparada ha demostrado ser un campo de estudio fructífero sobre la evolución onto...
Are language and thought the same? If they are different, what is the difference? What kind of langu...
The language constitutes a true evidence of human evolution. Through the years, it has participated ...
For obvious and very good reasons the study of human communication is dominated by the study of lang...
In this article I describe a framework for unifying spoken language, signed language, and gesture. C...
Tomasello, Carpenter, and Liszkowski (2007) have argued that pointing gestures do much more than sin...
Language is the system of meaningful symbols and rules that has endowed us with communicative and co...
Several cognitive accounts of human communication argue for a language-independent, prelinguistic ba...
This article investigates the role that nonverbal actions play in language processing over 3 differe...
The origins of the human language capacity is a much debated topic among scholars. In the late ninet...
It is well known that man is a compound of animal and intelligence that has the capacity to absorb t...
In this survey article, the author refers to the work of Stephen Levinson and Judith Holler, Sławom...
La investigación comparada ha demostrado ser un campo de estudio fructífero sobre la evolución ontog...
Comparative studies about human language and animal communication systems, so as the research...
El origen del lenguaje es uno de los temas que, sin lugar a duda, más debate ha generado en el campo...
"La investigación comparada ha demostrado ser un campo de estudio fructífero sobre la evolución onto...
Are language and thought the same? If they are different, what is the difference? What kind of langu...
The language constitutes a true evidence of human evolution. Through the years, it has participated ...
For obvious and very good reasons the study of human communication is dominated by the study of lang...
In this article I describe a framework for unifying spoken language, signed language, and gesture. C...
Tomasello, Carpenter, and Liszkowski (2007) have argued that pointing gestures do much more than sin...
Language is the system of meaningful symbols and rules that has endowed us with communicative and co...
Several cognitive accounts of human communication argue for a language-independent, prelinguistic ba...
This article investigates the role that nonverbal actions play in language processing over 3 differe...