fundamental, language act shared attention, without fundamentally huma — Christine Kenneally, First Word: Search Origins Language

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At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work.

Christine Kenneally, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language

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