Prosody as an intermediary evolutionary stage between a manual communication system and a fully developed language faculty

Prosody as an intermediary evolutionary stage between a manual communication system and a fully developed language faculty

Based on the motor theory of language, which asserts an evolution from gestures along several stages to today's speech and language, we suggest that speech ontogeny may partly reflect speech phylogeny, in that perception of prosodic contours is an intermediary stage between a manual communicati...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Behavioral and brain sciences 2004-08, Vol.27 (4), p.521-522
Hauptverfasser: Rogalewski, Andreas, Breitenstein, Caterina, Floel, Agnes, Knecht, Stefan
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Sprache:eng
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Communications systems
Language
Ontogeny
Phylogeny
Speech
Speech perception
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Zusammenfassung:Based on the motor theory of language, which asserts an evolution from gestures along several stages to today's speech and language, we suggest that speech ontogeny may partly reflect speech phylogeny, in that perception of prosodic contours is an intermediary stage between a manual communication system and a fully developed language faculty.
ISSN:0140-525X
1469-1825
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X04420111