Discontinuist and continuist approaches of language evolution… and beyond by Lise Habib-Dassetto, Alban Lemasson, Cristel Portes, Marie Montant

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Les lois linguistiques de la brièveté : conformité chez le lémurien chanteur Indri indri by Daria Valente, Chiara De Gregorio, Livio Favaro, Olivier Friard, Longondraza Miaretsoa, Teresa Raimondi, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Valeria Torti, Anna Zanoli, Cristina Giacoma, Marco Gamba

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Comparaison entre espèces chez le primate et évolution du langage by Anne Reboul

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Vocal flexibility in nonhuman primates and the origins of human language by Hélène Bouchet, Hiroki Koda, Nobuo Masataka, Alban Lemasson

“…In this paper, we review this work within the theoretical framework of language evolution.…”
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Crime Films and Lexical Change: Can an Analysis of an Electronic Corpus of Fifteen Crime Films Help Students Understand Semantic Mutations? by Jean-Louis Vidalenc

“…We suggest that a better understanding of the forces at work in language evolution will not only help students of English as a second language but may provide some insight into more theoretical approaches.…”
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Communication, latéralité et cerveau chez les primates humains et non humains : vers une origine gestuelle ou multimodale du langage ? by Adrien Meguerditchian, Hélène Cochet, Catherine Wallez, Jacques Vauclair

“…In the present paper, after emphasising the tight relation between gestures and language in human infants, we underlie the specific significance of communicative gestures and of the progressive control of the oro-facial system and the vocal tract in the course of the language evolution by reviewing the findings related to lateralization and brain correlates of both vocal and gestural systems in nonhuman primates.…”
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