Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of
language processing. In rejecting this dichotomy, we instead assert that producing and …

The presence of divergent and independent research traditions in the gestural and vocal
domains of primate communication has resulted in major discrepancies in the definition and …

We propose reframing one of the key questions in the field of language evolution as what
was the original human-specific communicative system? With the help of cognitive …

What is the role of language in social interaction? What does language bring to social
encounters? We argue that language can be conceived of as a tool for interacting minds …

This chapter presents an evolutionary and developmental model, according to which
intersubjectivity is intimately tied to bodily mimesis–the use of the body for communicative …

The goal of this article is to outline a general theory of meaning that I will refer to as The
Semiotic Hieranly. It distinguishes between four (macro) evolutionary levels in the …

We discuss four interconnected issues that we believe have hindered investigations into
how language may affect thinking. These have had a tendency to reappear in the debate …

This thesis concerns the nature of the gestures performed by five Swedish children. The
children are followed from 18 to 30 months of age: an age range which is characterized by a …

Where does linguistic structure come from? Recent gesture elicitation studies have indicated
that constituent order (corresponding to for instance subject–verb–object, or SVO in English) …

Experimental work in the field of language evolution has shown that novel signal systems
become more structured over time. In a recent paper, Kirby, Tamariz, Cornish, and Smith …