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Frontiers in Psychology
Neanderthal language? Just-so stories take center stage
Robert C. Berwick1 
关键词: language evolution;    human evolution;    language contact;    genetic admixture;   
DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00671
学科分类:心理学(综合)
来源: Frontiers
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【 摘 要 】

Dediu and Levinson (2013) link two extraordinary claims: first, humans and Neanderthals were one and the same species and second, “Speech and language … are ancient, being present in a modern-like form over half a million years ago in the common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans, the result of evolution in the prior one million years or so as H. heidelbergensis evolved from H. erectus” (p. 12). These claims are marred by their selective review of the literature; the use of equivocal evidence as definitive support for their interpretation; and the lack of any evolutionary evidence regarding the computations and representations that mediate modern linguistic competence.

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