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Evolution of affective and linguistic disambiguation under social eavesdropping pressures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2014

Kevin B. Clark
Kevin B. Clark*
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Research and Development Service, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA 90073. kbclarkphd@yahoo.com www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-clark/58/67/19a Complex Biological Systems Alliance, North Andover, MA 01845. kevin.clark@cbsaimtt.com
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Abstract

Contradicting new dual-pathway models of language evolution, cortico-striatal-thalamic circuitry disambiguate uncertainties in affective prosody and propositional linguistic content of language production and comprehension, predictably setting limits on useful complexity of articulate phonic and/or signed speech. Such limits likely evolved to ensure public information is discriminated by intended communicants and safeguarded against the ecological pressures of social eavesdropping within and across phylogenetic boundaries.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , December 2014 , pp. 551 - 552
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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