Publication details
Jak moc je lidská řeč stará?
| Title in English | How old is human speech? |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | In current discussions about the origin of human language the evolutionary psychology is increasingly gaining its position. With it enter into discussion (traditionally managed by developmental and cognitive psychology) behavioral arguments, sociobiological, anatomical, genetic, and even climatological and ecological arguments. Search for the beginnings of speech requires synthesis of many, at first glance, very different kinds of information. One such improbable connection is the relationship between the invention of composite tools (eg. stone-tipped spear) and the emergence of one of the levels of the speech - the narrative level. The author presents modified theory of prof. S.H. Ambrose. Current possibilities of dating of prehistoric artifacts due to this theory seems to make possible indirectly to date also psychological processes that are inherently archaeologically directly unpreservable. Is it possible to move the emergence of narrative level of language (narrative module) to to the beginning of the Middle Palaeolithic (300,000 years ago) and paste it into a mouth of H. heidelbergensis? Or can we find alternative explanatory models? |