On the Origins of Language: An Introduction to the Evolution of Human Speech |
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... SPEECH ENCODING AND DECODING Human language achieves a high rate of speed and overcomes the limits of memory span by the process of encoding . Encoding takes place at two levels , in the production of speech and in the trans ...
... SPEECH ENCODING AND DECODING Human language achieves a high rate of speed and overcomes the limits of memory span by the process of encoding . Encoding takes place at two levels , in the production of speech and in the trans ...
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... speech encoding and decoding that characterizes human language . The reconstructions of the supralaryngeal vocal ... speech . We will , of course , return to this topic , which is central to our theory . FACTOR 3 : SYNTACTIC ...
... speech encoding and decoding that characterizes human language . The reconstructions of the supralaryngeal vocal ... speech . We will , of course , return to this topic , which is central to our theory . FACTOR 3 : SYNTACTIC ...
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... speech perception . THE UNIQUENESS OF ENCODING Although the speech of modern Homo sapiens is a fully encoded system , we can't dogmatically assert that the vocal communications system of fossil hominids was completely unencoded or ...
... speech perception . THE UNIQUENESS OF ENCODING Although the speech of modern Homo sapiens is a fully encoded system , we can't dogmatically assert that the vocal communications system of fossil hominids was completely unencoded or ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Cognitive and Communicative Factors Underlying Language | 5 |
Darwin and Negus | 21 |
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