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From: rfoy@netcom.com (Richard Foy)
Subject: Re: The Beginning of Language
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In article <4lnljo$5p@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Francis Davey <fjmd1@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>In article <4l5ou3$jd@pelican.unf.edu>,
>
>Though this only gives us a terminus ante quem for the emergence of language.
>Language could have evolved either (i) Non-vocally or (ii) via a very
>restricted phoneme set. The adaptation of the larynx would then allow a
>different language medium, but the language might have been already present.

True. A few months ago I read an article that made a rather strong
case for (i).

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