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Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution

By Maggie Tallerman

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2005
ISBN
0199279047, 9780199279043
LCC
P116 .L36 2005
Open Library ID
OL22764100M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2863692 bytes)
Series
Studies in the Evolution of Language
Pages
446\447
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how and why it evolved; how it came to be culturally transmitted; and how languages diversified. It does so from the perspective of the lateste work in linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and computer science, and deploys the latest methods and theories toe probe into the origins and subsequent development of thee only species that has languages.

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