Origins of Human Language - Birds, Monkeys, and Humans (EdCast)

Origins of Human Language - Birds, Monkeys, and Humans (EdCast)
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Origins of Human Language - Birds, Monkeys, and Humans (EdCast)
In this course, we will look at the human language from the perspective of evolution: How did human language emerge in evolution? To get at this issue, we will look at a number of issues having to do with human language, the development of the brain, and a variety of proposals about language in evolution, including the Integration Hypothesis that the instructor recently proposed with colleagues.

By the end of this course you should be able to:

- describe and explain the issues pertaining to language and evolution

- describe some of the brain regions that support language

- describe some major proposals for how language emerged in evolution

- describe the systems that underlie birdsong and primate communication

- describe and explain the basic components of a sentence

- explain how the integration hypothesis incorporates what we know about other systems that underlie communication