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Can language disorders inform of how language evolved? The human self-domestication answer

2025-02-07

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<p>The view that language disorders are informative of previous stages in the evolution of language is controversial. In this paper, it will be argued that disorders can provide confident insights on how language evolved but only if discussed from an Eco-Evo-Devo perspective and within a general theory of language evolution. This claim will be illustrated by the consideration of the self-domestication account of h...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/esxa7_v1

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