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Aspects of human language: Where motherese?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2005

Emmanuel Gilissen
Emmanuel Gilissen*
Affiliation:
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Anthropology and Prehistory, B-1000Brussels, Belgiumhttp://www.naturalsciences.be/
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Abstract:

Human language is a peculiar primate communication tool because of its large neocortical substrate, comparable to the structural substrates of cognitive systems. Although monkey calls and human language rely on different structures, neural substrate for human language emotional coding, prosody, and intonation is already part of nonhuman primate vocalization circuitry. Motherese could be an aspect of language at the crossing or at the origin of communicative and cognitive content.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 514
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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