| Description |
xviii, 348 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Studies in the evolution of language ; 11 |
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Oxford linguistics |
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Studies in the evolution of language ; 11.
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Oxford linguistics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-334) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Rewards and challenges of multi-perspectival work on the evolution of language and speech / Rudolf Botha -- Why only humans have language / Robin Dunbar -- Is sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language? / Luc Steels -- Holistic communication and the co-evolution of language and music : resurrecting an old idea / Steven Mithen -- Music as a communicative medium / Ian Cross and Ghofur Eliot Woodruff -- Cultural niche construction : evolution's cradle of language / John Odling-Smee and Kevin N. Laland -- Playing with meaning : normative function and structure in play / Sonia Ragir and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh -- The ontogeny and phylogeny of non-verbal deixis / David A. Leavens, Timothy P. Racine, and William D. Hopkins -- The directed scratch : evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees? / Simone Pika and John C. Mitani -- The origins of the lexicon : how a word-store evolved / Maggie Tallerman -- Language : symbolization and beyond / Eric Reuland -- Grammaticalization from a biolinguistic perspective / Elly van Gelderen -- Recursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech / Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn -- Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution) / Bart de Boer -- Mosaic neurobiology and anatomical plausibility / Wendy K. Wilkins. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Historical linguistics.
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Language and languages -- Origin.
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Anthropological linguistics.
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Taalgenese.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Botha, Rudolf P.
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Knight, Chris, 1942-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780199545872 (cased) |
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0199545871 (cased) |
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019954588X (pbk.) |
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9780199545889 (pbk.) |
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