NameBenítez Burraco, Antonio
DepartmentLengua Española, Lingüística y Teoría de la Literatura
Knowledge areaLingüística General
Professional categoryCatedrático de Universidad
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Human Self-domestication and Language Evolution: Focusing on Disorders

Niego, Amy; Benítez Burraco, Antonio (2022)
The objective of this doctoral thesis is to contribute to the current discussion of the origins of language in our species. ...
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Revisiting the Case for ‘Feral’ Humans Under the Light of the Human Self-Domestication Hypothesis: Focusing on Language

Niego, Amy; Benítez Burraco, Antonio (University of Cyprus, 2022)
Contemporary descriptions of ‘feral’ children generally preclude any insightful inference about the language deficits ...
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Specific Language Impairment, Autism Spectrum Disorders and Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorders: Is There Overlap in Language Deficits? A Review

Félix, Juliana; Santos, María Emília; Benítez Burraco, Antonio (Springer, 2022)
Analysing language characteristics and understanding their dynamics is the key for a successful intervention by speech ...
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Fish as Model Systems to Study Epigenetic Drivers in Human Self-Domestication and Neurodevelopmental Cognitive Disorders

Anastasiadi, Dafni; Piferrer, Francesc; Wellenreuther, Maren; Benítez Burraco, Antonio (2022)
Modern humans exhibit phenotypic traits and molecular events shared with other domes ticates that are thought to be ...
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Human Self-Domestication and the Evolution of Pragmatics

Benítez Burraco, Antonio; Ferretti, Francesco; Progovac, Ljiljana (2021)
As proposed for the emergence of modern languages, we argue that modern uses of languages (prag-matics) also evolved ...
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Evolutionary linguistics can help refine (and test) hypotheses about how music might have evolved [Editorial]

Benítez Burraco, Antonio (Cambridge Univ Press, 2021)
Both the music and social bonding (MSB) hypothesis and the music as a credible signal hypothesis emerge as solid views of ...
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Autism and Williams syndrome: Dissimilar socio-cognitive profiles with similar patterns of abnormal gene expression in the blood

Benítez Burraco, Antonio; Niego, Amy (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2021)
Autism spectrum disorders and Williams syndrome exhibit quite opposite features in the social domain, but also share some ...
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Did dog domestication contribute to language evolution?

Benítez Burraco, Antonio; Pörtl, Daniela; Jung, Christoph (Frontiers Media SA, 2021)
Different factors seemingly account for the emergence of present-day languages in our species. Human self-domestication ...
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The biology of language under a minimalist lens: promises, achievements, and limits

Benítez Burraco, Antonio; Fujita, Koji; Hoshi, Koji; Progovac, Ljiljana (2021)
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Cromosomopatías y lenguaje: alteraciones fonético-fonológicas asociadas a una microduplicación en el cromosoma 1q21.1. Estudio de un caso

Rodríguez Palomero, Antonio; Jiménez Romero, María Salud; Benítez Burraco, Antonio (Universidad de Cádiz; Servicio de Publicaciones de la Unniversidad de Sevilla, 2020)
El presente trabajo aborda el estudio lingüístico de un tipo de cromosomopatía, concretamente, la microduplicación en ...
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The golden mean: A systems biology approach to developmental language disorders

Benítez Burraco, Antonio (Universidad de Cadiz; Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2020)
Current typologies of developmental language disorders are mostly based on symptomatic criteria. Nonetheless, ...
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Editorial: Self-Domestication and Human Evolution

Benítez Burraco, Antonio; Clay, Zanna; Kempe, Vera (2020)
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CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database

G Roberts, Seán; Killin, Anton; Deb, Angarika; Sheard, Catherine; Greenhill, Simon J; Sinnemäki, Kaius; Segovia- Martín, José; Nölle, Jonas; Berdicevskis, Aleksandrs; Humphreys- Balkawill, Archie; Little, Hannah; Opie, Christopher; Jacques, Guillaume; Bromham, Lindell; Tinits, Peeter; Ross, M.; Lee, Sean; Gasser, Emily; Calladine, Jasmine; Spike, Matthew; Mann, Stephen Francis; Shcherbakova, Olena; Singer, Ruth; Zhang, Shuya; Benítez Burraco, Antonio; Kliesch, Christian; Thomas-Colquhoun, Ewan; Skirgård, Hedvig; Tamariz, Monica; Passmore, Sam; Pellard, Thomas; Jordan, Fiona (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Language is one of the most complex of human traits. There are many hypotheses about how it originated, what factors shaped ...
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Valoración pragmática del lenguaje en niños con cromosomopatías de baja prevalencia

Fernández Urquiza, Maite; Jiménez Romero, María Salud; Benítez Burraco, Antonio (Universidad de Cádiz; Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2020)
Las cromosomopatías consisten en duplicaciones o deleciones de fragmentos cromosómicos que suelen conllevar alteraciones ...
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Functional characterization of two enhancers located downstream FOXP2

Torres Ruiz, Raúl; Benítez Burraco, Antonio; Martínez Lage, Marta; Rodríguez Perales, Sandra; García Bellido, Paloma (Springer Nature, 2019)
Background: Mutations in the coding region of FOXP2 are known to cause speech and language impairment. However, it is not ...
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The promoter regions of intellectual disability-associated genes are uniquely enriched in LTR sequences of the MEr41 primate-specific endogenous retrovirus: An evolutionary connection between immunity and cognition

Nataf, Serge; Uriagereka, Juan; Benítez Burraco, Antonio (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2019)
Social behavior and neuronal connectivity in rodents have been shown to be shaped by the prototypical T lymphocyte-derived ...
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Williams syndrome, human self-domestication, and language evolution

Niego, Amy; Benítez Burraco, Antonio (Frontiers Media SA, 2019)
Language evolution resulted from changes in our biology, behavior, and culture. One source of these changes might be human ...
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From Physical Aggression to Verbal Behavior: Language Evolution and Self-Domestication Feedback Loop

Progovac, Ljiljana; Benítez Burraco, Antonio (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2019)
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Las lenguas inventadas de la Prehistoria: a propósito de un caso

Vázquez Ramírez, Lidia; Benítez Burraco, Antonio (2019)
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Toward the language oscillogenome

Murphy, Elliot; Benítez Burraco, Antonio (Frontiers Media S.A., 2018)
Language has been argued to arise, both ontogenetically and phylogenetically, from specific patterns of brain wiring. We ...
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The Emergence of Modern Languages: Has Human Self-Domestication Optimized Language Transmission?

Benítez Burraco, Antonio; Kempe, Vera (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2018)
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Narrowing the genetic causes of language dysfunction in the 1q21.1 microduplication syndrome

Benítez Burraco, Antonio; Barcos Martínez, Montserrat; Espejo Portero, Isabel; Fernández Urquiza, Maite; Torres Ruiz, Raúl; Rodríguez Perales, Sandra; Jiménez Romero, María Salud (2018)
The chromosome 1q21.1 duplication syndrome (OMIM# 612475) is characterized by head anomalies, mild facial dysmorphisms, ...
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Disentangling the Neanderthal net: A comment on Johansson (2013)

Barceló Coblijn, Lluís; Benítez Burraco, Antonio (2013)
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Aspectos de la concordancia de número en las lenguas eslavas

Benítez Burraco, Antonio (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2007)
La concordancia de número responde fundamentalmente a factores de naturaleza sintáctica, pero también a otros de carácter ...
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Valores de la categoría de número en las lenguas eslavas evolución histórica y caracterización actual

Benítez Burraco, Antonio (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2005)
En las lenguas eslavas el número es un rasgo eminentemente nominal, caracterizado por un diseño conservador de su sistema ...