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putting the baby down hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Evolutionary anthropology

the proposal that early hominin mothers' vocal soothing of infants set down while foraging gave rise to the beginnings of language.

In evolutionary anthropology, putting the baby down hypothesis refers to the proposal that early hominin mothers' vocal soothing of infants set down while foraging gave rise to the beginnings of language. This meaning comes from Falk (2004) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.[1]

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Falk, D. (2004). Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27(4), 491-503. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x04000111

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