Turn-taking – the coordinated and efficient transition between the roles of sender and receiver in communication – is a fundamental property of conversational interaction. The turn-taking mechanism depends on a variety ...

The cooperative character of language is an empirical fact and one of the key tenets in linguistics. However, this cooperative character is what makes it evolutionarily suspect: under normal circumstances sharing honest ...

In current literature, a number of standard lines of evidence reemerge in support of the hypothesis that the initial, “bootstrapping” stage of the evolution of language was gestural. However, one specific feature of gestural ...

Impairments of motor representation of actions have been reported as a core component of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Individuals with ASD have difficulties in a number of functions such as assuming anticipatory postures, ...

Charles Darwin widział w nim największy, obok ognia, wynalazek ludzkości. John Maynard Smith i Eörs Szathmáry uznają jego pojawienie się za ostatni z wielkich ewolucyjnych przełomów, którego wyjaśnienie Morten H. ...

Nauka o ewolucji języka nie podjęła jeszcze szeroko zakrojonych badań nad prozodią, choć refleksja nad zjawiskami prozodycznymi pojawia się w wielu teoriach powstania języka. Celem rozdziału jest wskazanie tych stanowisk, ...

Understanding the adaptive function of the unique morphology of the human eye, in particular its overexposed white sclera, may have profound implications for the fields of evolutionary behavioural science, and specifically ...

The science of language evolution appeared at the end of the last century but top¬ically belongs to language origins – the domain of investigation that is concerned with the beginnings and diversification of language. ...

A persistent controversy in language evolution research has been whether language emerged in the gestural-visual or in the vocal-auditory modality. A “dialectic” solution to this age-old debate has now been gaining ground: ...

Could pantomime have been the key step in the evolutionary emergence of symbolic communication? Such a possibility has been consistently present in the intellectual reflection on language origins. What makes pantomime ...