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- 2015
Language Did Not Spring Forth 100,000 Years AgoDOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002064 Keywords: Language,Evolutionary linguistics,Syntax,Cognitive linguistics,Speech,Neanderthals,Learning,Language acquisition Abstract: In response to an Essay by Johan Bolhuis and co-authors, Phillip Lieberman contends that rather than arising from a key recent innovation ("merge"), language arose by gradual evolution of ancient capabilities
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