One of the difficulties for those wanting to create a plausible history of the evolution of language is the leap from animal sounds to our compositional language. While almost everyone agrees that there must be a path between those two poles, the nature of the path is still quite obscure.
Recent research (emphasised by Steven Mithen in his excellent new …
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