On the Origins of Language: An Introduction to the Evolution of Human Speech |
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... 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- formational syntax of human ...
... 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- formational syntax of human ...
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... decoding that characterizes human language . The reconstructions of the supralaryngeal vocal tracts of various ... DECODING There are three interrelated aspects to the neural mechanisms that underly language : syntactic encoding ...
... decoding that characterizes human language . The reconstructions of the supralaryngeal vocal tracts of various ... DECODING There are three interrelated aspects to the neural mechanisms that underly language : syntactic encoding ...
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... decoding that makes human speech a rapid means of communication crucially depends on a listener's knowing the size of the speaker's supralaryngeal vocal tract . It therefore is not sur- prising to find that these sounds are highly ...
... decoding that makes human speech a rapid means of communication crucially depends on a listener's knowing the size of the speaker's supralaryngeal vocal tract . It therefore is not sur- prising to find that these sounds are highly ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Cognitive and Communicative Factors Underlying Language | 5 |
Darwin and Negus | 21 |
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