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Adam’s Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans

By Derek Bickerton

Book information

Publisher
Hill and Wang
Year
2009
ISBN
9780809022816, 0809022818
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2093381 bytes)
Pages
286\286
Topic
Linguistics
Time added
2019-05-16 02:15:03

Description

Cleaned, single-page version. Contents (v)......Page 5 Introduction (3)......Page 7 1. The Size of the Problem (16)......Page 20 2. Thinking Like Engineers (37)......Page 41 3. Singing Apes? (55)......Page 59 4. Chatting Apes? (73)......Page 77 5. Niches Aren't Everything (They're the Only Thing) (92)......Page 96 6. Our Ancestors in Their Niches (109)......Page 113 7. Go to the Ant, Thou Sluggard (128)......Page 132 8. The Big Bang (146)......Page 150 9. The Challenge from Chomsky (169)......Page 173 10. Making Up Our Minds (192)......Page 196 11. An Acorn Grows to a Sapling (211)......Page 215 12. The Sapling Becomes an Oak (232)......Page 236 Notes (251)......Page 254 Bibliography (259)......Page 261 Acknowledgments (273)......Page 274 Index (275)......Page 275

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