The origin of language as a product of the evolution of double-scope blending

Gilles Fauconnier · Mark B. Turner

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Language and cultural evolution Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

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Abstract Meaning construction through language requires advanced mental operations also necessary for other higher-order, specifically human behaviors. Biological evolution slowly improved conceptual mapping capacities until human beings reached the level of double-scope blending, perhaps 50 to 80 thousand years ago, at which point language, along with other higher-order human behaviors, became possible. Languages are optimized to be driven by the principles and powers of double-scope blending.

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