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  1. ; ; ; ; (, Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
    Language is often regarded as a de ning trait of our species, but what are its core properties? In 1960, Hockett published ‘The origin of speech’ enumerating 13 de- sign features presumed to be common to all languages, and which, taken to- gether, separate language from other communication systems. Here. we review which features still hold true in light of new evidence from cognitive science, lin- guistics, animal cognition, and anthropology, and demonstrate how a revised un- derstanding of language highlights three core aspects: that language is inherently multimodal and semiotically diverse; that it functions as a tool for se- mantic, pragmatic, and social inference, as well as facilitating categorization; and that the processes of interaction and transmission give rise to central design features of language. 
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