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In this article it is argued that language was consciously invented by our ancestors only after they became capable of "thinking about thinking". The view of language emergence suggested here rejects syntatctocentric approaches to language; it also distances itself from accounts of language evolution which predict linguistic forms to have arisen before linguistic meanings.
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This page is a summary of: Arguing for a conscious emergence of language, Lingua, July 2017, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2017.04.009.
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