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The sound of one hand clapping: Overdetermination and the pansensory nature of communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2014

Kenneth John Aitken
Kenneth John Aitken*
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Psychology Department, Hillside School, Aberdour, Fife KY3 0RH, Scotland, United Kingdom. aitken_k@hillsideschool.co.uk drken.aitken@btinternet.com
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Abstract

Two substantive issues are relevant to discussions of the evolution of acoustic communication and merit further consideration here. The first is the importance of communicative ontogeny and the impact of the proximal social environment on the early development of communication and language. The second is the emerging evidence for a number of non-linguistic roles of FOXP2 and its orthologs.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , December 2014 , pp. 546 - 547
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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