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Text 1
Many evolutionary anthropologists argue that human language originated from gestural communication. Because nonhuman primates use intentional, flexible hand gestures to communicate but have highly constrained vocalizations, gestural theorists propose that the cognitive foundations of syntax and semantics were established in the manual modality. Only later, as the vocal tract anatomically evolved to allow a wider range of sounds, did speech usurp gestures as the primary mode of human communication. From this perspective, vocal language is an evolutionary newcomer that built upon a pre-existing, gesture-based cognitive architecture.

Text 2
While gestural theories of language origin are popular, they underestimate the complexity of primate vocalizations and the integrated nature of modern human communication. Neuroscientific research shows that gestural and vocal systems in humans are governed by the same brain areas, such as Broca's area, and operate in tandem during speech. Rather than vocal language replacing gestural language over evolutionary time, it is far more likely that gestures and vocalizations co-evolved as a single, multimodal system. Early hominins likely relied on simultaneous displays of voice and hand, with neither modality preceding the other.

Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely characterize the claim in Text 1 that vocal language built upon a pre-existing gesture-based cognitive architecture?

  1. As an explanation that overlooks the neurological integration and simultaneous evolution of speech and gesture.Cevap
  2. B
    As a speculative hypothesis that incorrectly assumes early hominins relied on gestural communication to the exclusion of all other modalities.
  3. C
    As a perspective that correctly synthesizes behavioral observations of primates with neuroscientific findings.
  4. D
    As a flawed hypothesis that fails to account for when the human vocal tract began to anatomically shift.

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As an explanation that overlooks the neurological integration and simultaneous evolution of speech and gesture.
The author of Text 1 argues that vocal language is a later development that built upon an earlier gesture-based system. In Text 2, the author argues that gestural and vocal systems in humans are governed by the same brain regions, operate in tandem, and co-evolved. Therefore, the author of Text 2 would view the sequential model in Text 1 as overlooking the neurological integration and simultaneous evolution of both speech and gesture.

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1
Identify the specific claim in Text 1 to which the author of Text 2 would respond.
The claim is that vocal language built upon a pre-existing gesture-based cognitive architecture.
This establishes the target of comparison between the two texts.
2
Analyze Text 2's position regarding the relationship between gestures and vocalizations.
Text 2 argues that gestures and speech are controlled by the same brain areas, function in tandem, and co-evolved as a single multimodal system.
This provides the contrasting evidence and viewpoint of the second author.
3
Evaluate the response of the author of Text 2 to Text 1's claim.
Because Text 2 presents speech and gestures as neurologically integrated and co-evolved, its author would view Text 1's sequential model as overlooking this integration and simultaneous evolution.
This identifies the correct characterization of the relationship between the two authors' arguments.

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