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Human language evolution: clustering of fifteen language comprehension abilities in 55558 individuals suggests three-step-wise language comprehension acquisition

2023-07-25

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There is an opposition between saltationist and gradualist hypotheses of human language comprehension evolution. The saltationist hypothesis argues for an abrupt step-like transition from non-recursive to recursive language sometime around 100,000 years ago. The gradualist scenario conjectures a much slower acquisition of grammatical and syntactic abilities over several million years. The former hypothesis expects...

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Literature Corpus work: 5871b7ee-dc7e-563e-ab50-f4fa0504b951
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3112490/v1

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