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SUBMITTER: Oller DK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4848144 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oller D Kimbrough DK Griebel Ulrike U Warlaumont Anne S AS
Topics in cognitive science 20160302 2
Modeling of evolution and development of language has principally utilized mature units of spoken language, phonemes and words, as both targets and inputs. This approach cannot address the earliest phases of development because young infants are unable to produce such language features. We argue that units of early vocal development-protophones and their primitive illocutionary/perlocutionary forces-should be targeted in evolutionary modeling because they suggest likely units of hominin vocaliza ...[more]