dc.contributor.author |
Corballis, Michael |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2015-05-18T04:46:31Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2014-12 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2014, 27 pp. 39 - 60 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1972-1293 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/25567 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Language is commonly held to be unique to humans, and to have emerged suddenly in a single “great leap forward” within the past 100,000 years. The view is profoundly anti-Darwinian, and I propose instead a framework for understanding how language might have evolved incrementally from our primate heritage. One major proposition is that language evolved from manual action, with vocalization emerging as the dominant mode late in hominin evolution. The second proposition has to do with the role of language as a means of communicating about events displaced in space and time from the present. Some have argued that mental time travel itself is unique to human, which might explain why language itself is uniquely human. I argue instead that mental time travel has ancient evolutionary origins, and gradually assumed narrative-like properties during the Pleistocene, when language itself began to take shape. |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Details obtained from http://www.humanamente.eu/callforpapers.html |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.rights.uri |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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dc.title |
The gradual evolution of language |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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pubs.begin-page |
39 |
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pubs.volume |
27 |
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dc.description.version |
VoR - Version of Record |
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pubs.author-url |
http://www.humanamente.eu/PDF/Issue27_Papers_Corballis.pdf |
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pubs.end-page |
60 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
471454 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2015-02-09 |
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