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Q&A: What is human language, when did it evolve and why should we care?
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BMC Biologyvolume 15, Article number: 64 (2017) Cite this article
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Abstract
Human language is unique among all forms of animal communication.
It is unlikely that any other species, including our close genetic cousins the Neanderthals, ever had language, and so-called sign ‘language’ in Great Apes is nothing like human language.
The origin of language (summary pdf)
Language evolution shares many features with biological evolution, and this has made it useful for tracing recent human history and for studying how culture evolves among groups of people with related languages. A case can be made that language has played a more important role in our species’ recent (circa last 200,000 years) evolution than have our genes.
What is special about human language?
Human language is distinct from all other known animal forms of communication in being compositional.
Human language allows speakers to express thoughts in sentences comp
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