TY - JOUR
T1 - What is Language and How Could it Have Evolved?
AU - Everaert, M.B.H.
AU - Huijbregts, M.A.C.
AU - Berwick, Robert
AU - Chomsky, N.
AU - Tattersall, Ian
AU - Moro, Andrea
AU - Bolhuis, J.J.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Unraveling the evolution of human language is no small enterprise. One could start digging somewhere in the largely unobservable past, working forwards to the present, hoping to surface in the right spot. Alternatively, one could start with the currently observed and well-established properties of human language, the phenotype of language, and work backwards, with these ‘knowns’ guiding the search for otherwise speculative historical ‘unknowns’. In a recent issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Corballis [1] appears confident that only the first strategy will serve.
AB - Unraveling the evolution of human language is no small enterprise. One could start digging somewhere in the largely unobservable past, working forwards to the present, hoping to surface in the right spot. Alternatively, one could start with the currently observed and well-established properties of human language, the phenotype of language, and work backwards, with these ‘knowns’ guiding the search for otherwise speculative historical ‘unknowns’. In a recent issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Corballis [1] appears confident that only the first strategy will serve.
U2 - 10.1016/j.tics.2017.05.007
DO - 10.1016/j.tics.2017.05.007
M3 - Article
SN - 1364-6613
VL - 1691
SP - 569
EP - 571
JO - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
JF - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
ER -
