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  1. No Country for Oldowan Men: Emerging Factors in Language Evolution.Elliot Murphy - 2019 - Frontiers in Psychology 10.
    Language evolution has long been researched. I will review a number of broad, emerging research directions which arguably have the potential to contribute to our understanding of language evolution. Emerging topics in genomics and neurolinguistics are explored, and human-specific levels of braincase globularity – and the broader process of self-domestication within which globularity seems capable of being encapsulated – will be argued to be the central pillars of any satisfactory and interdisciplinary model of language evolution.
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  • Labels, cognomes, and cyclic computation: an ethological perspective.Elliot Murphy - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6:144329.
    For the past two decades, it has widely been assumed by linguists that there is a single computational operation, Merge, which is unique to language, distinguishing it from other cognitive domains. The intention of this paper is to progress the discussion of language evolution in two ways: (i) survey what the ethological record reveals about the uniqueness of the human computational system, and (ii) explore how syntactic theories account for what ethology may determine to be human-specific. It is shown that (...)
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  • Constructing Complexity in a Young Sign Language.Svetlana Dachkovsky, Rose Stamp & Wendy Sandler - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9:347395.
    A universally acknowledged, core property of language is its complexity, at each level of structure – sounds, words, phrases, clauses, utterances, and higher levels of discourse. How does this complexity originate and develop in a language? We cannot fully answer this question from spoken languages, since they are all thousands of years old or descended from old languages. However, sign languages of deaf communities can arise at any time and provide empirical data for testing hypotheses related to the emergence of (...)
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  • The Emergence of Modern Languages: Has Human Self-Domestication Optimized Language Transmission?Antonio Benítez-Burraco & Vera Kempe - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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  • Editorial: The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-linguistic Causes of Language Diversity.Antonio Benítez-Burraco & Steven Moran - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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  • Evolutionary linguistics can help refine (and test) hypotheses about how music might have evolved.Antonio Benítez-Burraco - 2021 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44.
    Both the music and social bonding hypothesis and the music as a credible signal hypothesis emerge as solid views of how human music and human musicality might have evolved. Nonetheless, both views could be improved with the consideration of the way in which human language might have evolved under the effects of our self-domestication.
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  • Commentary: Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers.Antonio Benítez-Burraco - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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  • Moral theory: The linguistic analogy.Gilbert Harman & Erica Roedder - manuscript
    Analogies are often theoretically useful. Important principles of electricity are suggested by an analogy between water current flowing through a pipe and electrical current “flowing” through a wire. A basic theory of sound is suggested by an analogy between waves caused by a stone being dropped into a still lake and “sound waves” caused by a disturbance in air.
     
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