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e Origins of Language Revisited Differentiation from Music and the Emergence of Neurodiversity and Autism
The Origins of Language Revisited
Nobuo Masataka Editor
The Origins of Language Revisited Differentiation from Music and the Emergence of Neurodiversity and Autism
Editor Nobuo Masataka Primate Research Institute Kyoto University Inuyama, Aichi, Japan
ISBN 978-981-15-4249-7 ISBN 978-981-15-4250-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4250-3
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Preface
This book summarizes the advancement of the research and the consideration about the process of evolution and differentiation of language on the basis of empirical evidence after the publication of The Origins of Language published by Springer in 2008. There is a general consensus that language gives the human mind the culturally evolved means to differentiate reality in great detail. The chapters about nonhuman primate communication included in the present book together reveal the fact that the evolution of language required the neural rewiring of circuits that controlled vocalization. The vocal tract muscles in nonhuman primates are controlled from an old emotional center. Nevertheless, the emergence of voluntary control over vocalization is recognized. Based upon this capability, humans are enabled to possess a remarkable degree of voluntary control over their voice. Correspondingly, conceptual and emotional systems, though limited, are differentiated in nonhuman primates as in humans. It is noteworthy that to accomplish such function, the rudimentary form of syntax (regularity of call sequences) has emerged in
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