Sentences with phrase «precursor of human language»

This known asymmetry has led researchers to investigate whether a similar left - hemispheric bias could be found in other animals, as a possible evolutionary precursor of human language.

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Ironically, most of the research into the evolutionary basis of language has focused so far on a single function — speech perception — which is unique to humans, and thus evolutionary precursors are hard, if not impossible, to identify.

For both precursors of the Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, the philosopher of the Vth century Dignana and the logician of the VIIth, Dharmakarti, the words of the language are abstract constructions created by the imagination and the human intellect.