Periodic Reporting for period 3 - TURNTAKING (Taking turns: The ‘missing’ link in language evolution?)

Language — the most distinctive human trait — remains a ‘mystery’(Knight, Studdert-Kennedy, & Hurford, 2000) or even a ‘problem’(Hauser et al., 2014) for evolutionary theory. It is underpinned by cooperative turn-taking (Sacks, Schegloff, & Jefferson, 1974), which...