have failed to understand the important relationship between early hominin social evolution and language capacity.

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In The Mental and Social Life of Babies, psychologist Kenneth Kaye noted that no usable adult language could have evolved without interactive communication between very young children and adults.

The referentiality of chimpanzee vocal signaling: behavioral and acoustic analysis of food barks (Thesis). Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Piraha Another Look at the Design Features of Human Language" (PDF). Another approach inspects early human fossils, looking for traces of physical adaptation to language use. Moreover, such vocal imitation can occur without comprehension such as in speech shadowing [109] and echolalia.

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Ancient history (3000 BCE–500 CE) [ edit ] Africa [ edit ] Expansion of the Phoenician language The Vandals during the Migration period. However, given the selective advantages of pro-social vocal synchrony, we suggest the species would have developed significantly more complex vocal abilities than chimpanzees and bonobos. Those who consider language as learned socially, such as Michael Tomasello, consider it developing from the cognitively controlled aspects of primate communication, these being mostly gestural as opposed to vocal. Schlenker, Philippe; Chemla, Emmanuel; Arnold, Kate; Lemasson, Alban; Ouattara, Karim; Keenan, Sumir; Stephan, Claudia; Ryder, Robin; Zuberbühler, Klaus (December 2014). The Aztecs' story maintains that only a man, Coxcox, and a woman, Xochiquetzal, survived a flood, having floated on a piece of bark.Conversely, human children are able to ask their first questions (using only question intonation) at the babbling period of their development, long before they start using syntactic structures.