The Emergence of Modern Languages: Has Human Self-Domestication Optimized Language Transmission?

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Frontiers | The Emergence of Modern Languages: Has Human Self-Domestication Optimized Language Transmission? | Psychology https://t.co/YjAg9IRWUv

24 Aug 2021

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During this phase, we see an extended juvenile period (see work with @vkempe: https://t.co/B7QdmQTsBj) and sophisticated teaching and cultural transmission practices #Protolang6

11 Sep 2019

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@FrontPsychol Research Topic on languages as adaptive systems https://t.co/XxcMP83lcp ☺️👉Happy to have contributed to this RT with @vkempe with our paper on the effect of self-domestication on the emergence of modern languages https://t.co/xNiw51hT6D

10 Aug 2019

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@CathrynTownsend @DanEverett19 Indeed! Expect as well changes in the face contributing to enhanced non-verbal communication https://t.co/JUyYgy0fzz Overall, increased self-domestication, resulting in smaller brains & neotenic/flatter faces might have

31 May 2019

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