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Speech Cues and Sign Stimuli.

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Mattingly, Ignatius G. – 1971

Parallels between sign stimuli and speech cues suggest some interesting speculations about the origins of language. Speech cues may belong to the class of human sign stimuli which, as in animal behavior, may be the product of an innate releasing mechanism. Prelinguistic speech for man may have functioned as a social-releaser system. Human language…

Descriptors: Acoustics, Animal Behavior, Articulation (Speech), Artificial Speech