Tag: languageevolution
‘Iconic’ Sounds May Be Missing Link to Language
The missing link that helped our ancestors to begin communicating with each other through language may have been iconic...
Chimpanzee Lip-Smacks help Trace Evolution of Language
Chimpanzees produce lip-smacks at a speech-like rhythm of open-close mouth cycles, suggesting that speech-rhythm was built upon existing primate signal systems
In the paper ‘Chimpanzee lip-smacks confirm primate continuity for speech-rhythm evolution’, published in Biology...
Speech May Be Ten Times Older Than Previously Thought
New research suggests that speech may not be dependent on the “descended larynx” which could mean that our ancestors were talking 20 million years ago
For 50 years, the theory of the “descended larynx” has...
The Environmental Link to Language Evolution
According to new research by linguists from the University of New Mexico and Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage-CNRS in France, the characteristics of languages have a lot to do with the climate and topogrophy of...