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Prosody as an intermediary evolutionary stage between a manual communication system and a fully developed language faculty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2005

Andreas Rogalewski ,
Caterina Breitenstein ,
Agnes Floel  and
Stefan Knecht
Andreas Rogalewski*
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of Muenster, 48129Muenster, Germanyhttp://neurologie.unimuenster.de/ger/mitarbeiter/rogalewski
Caterina Breitenstein*
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of Muenster, 48129Muenster, Germanyhttp://neurologie.unimuenster.de/ger/mitarbeiter/rogalewski
Agnes Floel*
Affiliation:
Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD20892
Stefan Knecht*
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of Muenster, 48129Muenster, Germanyhttp://neurologie.unimuenster.de/ger/mitarbeiter/rogalewski
*
rogalewski@uni-muenster.de
caterina.breitenstein@uni-muenster.de
floela@ninds.nih.gov
knecht@uni-muenster.de
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Abstract:

Based on the motor theory of language, which asserts an evolution from gestures along several stages to today's speech and language, we suggest that speech ontogeny may partly reflect speech phylogeny, in that perception of prosodic contours is an intermediary stage between a manual communication system and a fully developed language faculty.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 521 - 522
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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