The multimodal origins of linguistic communication

dc.contributor.authorWacewicz, Sławomir
dc.contributor.authorŻywiczyński, Przemysław
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T09:11:28Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T09:11:28Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractWhy is language unique? How and why did it emerge? Such questions are emblematic of the Western intellectual tradition, and while some even today see them as intractable, a majority consider the problem of language origins as difficult but possible to address scientifically: “the hardest problem in science”. Such questions are the domain of language evolution: an interdisciplinary and inclusive research area unified by a common goal: to explain the emergence and subsequent development of the species-specific human ability to acquire and use language. In this brief introduction, we describe the transition of the field from mostly theoretical “grand questions” to mostly empirical research focused on narrowly defined puzzles. Increasingly many such specific, empirically addressable puzzles revolve around the motif of sensory modality, which – we argue – is as central to determining the origins of linguistic communication as to understanding its present nature.pl
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by the Faculty of Languages, Nicolaus Copernicus University, research fund.pl
dc.identifier.citationLanguage & Communicationpl
dc.identifier.otherDOI:10.1016/j.langcom.2016.10.001
dc.identifier.urihttp://repozytorium.umk.pl/handle/item/4030
dc.language.isoengpl
dc.rightsAttribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Poland*
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/*
dc.subjectlanguage evolutionpl
dc.subjectlanguage originspl
dc.subjectmultimodalitypl
dc.subjectEvolangpl
dc.subjectProtolangpl
dc.subjectprotolanguagepl
dc.titleThe multimodal origins of linguistic communicationpl
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlepl

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