Holistic utterances in protolanguage: the link from primates to humans

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The relation between language and theory of mind in development and evolution (2002, background): “In addition, all of the mentioned third factors leave most of the specific features of language unaccounted for (e.g., Hurford, 2000).”
Launching Language: The Gestural Origin of Discrete Infinity (2002, background): “Similarly, Wray (2000), deriving words from holistic utterances as a first step into syntax, assumes that ‘…arbitrary phonetic representation developed not in the service of words, but of complete, [semantically] holistic utterances…long before words or grammar appeared’ (293).”
The co-evolution of intersubjectivity and bodily mimesis (2008, background): “The more “holophrastic” version of this hypothesis – according to which the first expressions are/were more like formulaic sentences such as How are you? than words (Zlatev 1997; Wray 2000) – has been referred to as “protosign” (Arbib 2003; 2005).”