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Sign Iconicity and its Contribution to Gesture-First Theories of Language Origin

2024-04-22

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<p>How language began is one of the oldest questions in science. This chapter reviews the evidence for the vocal-first, gesture-first and multimodal theories of language origin. First, it considers the nature of signs, and argues that signs exist on a continuum that ranges from iconic to symbolic. Next, a general theoretical model of language creation is outlined, and the naturalistic and experimental evidence for...

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Literature Corpus work: 591bbd60-b4c7-5552-a43e-ab5f2f949a84
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/tdrqn

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