Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-mlc7c Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-14T18:38:48.784Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Message and medium: Lowly and action-related origins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Peter F. MacNeilage  and
Barbara L. Davis
Peter F. MacNeilage
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 macneilage@psy.utexas.edu
Barbara L. Davis
Affiliation:
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 babs@mail.utexas.edu
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Hurford presents a much-needed lowly origins scenario for the evolution of conceptual precursors to lexical items. But more is still needed on action, regarding both the message level of lexical concepts and the medium. We summarize our complementary action-based lowly origins (frame/content) scenario for the vocal auditory medium of language, which, like Hurford's scenario, is anchored in a phylogenetically old neurological dichotomy.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 2003 , pp. 296 - 297
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)