Why do Scots and Peruvians "talk like children"? The evolution of human accents

 

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Upphovsman: Monge, Julián
Materialtyp: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Utgivningstid:2019
Beskrivning:Natural selection has favored the development of a human language so rich in information, that, additionally to meaning, we can also identify the speaker`s sex, emotional state, age, health and social status. Selection has also favored accents and local languages, because they allow the identification of group members (and the exclusion of nonmembers from the group’s resources). The brain uses rules to extract that information, and these rules can fail when applied to alien accents and languages, interpreting, for example, anger or infantilism where there are none.
Land:Portal de Revistas UCR
Organisation:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Språk:Inglés
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OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/36859
Länkar:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/36859
Nyckelord:intonation
length of sounds
language
human evolution
natural selection
entonación
longitud de los sonidos
lenguaje
evolución humana
selección natural