Dedui Levinson 000002

In this paper we briefly review several recent lines of evidence concerning Neandertal language and speech capacity, aiming to dispel thei dea —still held in some influential circles— that the Neandertals were an inarticulate not quite human [[species], arguing instead that they were probably not very different biologically or cognitively from us, and that their linguistic capacities were closely similar to our own.