Kendon, A;
(2016)
Reflections on the “gesture-first” hypothesis of language origins.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
10.3758/s13423-016-1117-3.
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Abstract
The main lines of evidence taken as support for the “gesture-first” hypothesis of language origins are briefly evaluated, and the problem that speech poses for this hypothesis is discussed. I conclude that language must have evolved in the oral–aural and kinesic modalities together, with neither modality taking precedence over the other.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Reflections on the “gesture-first” hypothesis of language origins |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3758/s13423-016-1117-3 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1117-3 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Gesture, Language origins, Speech, Primate communication, Sign language |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1517835 |
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