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The evolutionary emergence of language : evidence and inference / edited by Rudolf Botha, Martin Everaert.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
- Oxford studies in the evolution of language ; 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Origin.
- Language and languages.
- Computational linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (355 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Leading primatologists, cognitive scientists, anthropologists and linguists consider how language evolution can be understood by means of inference from the study of linked or analogous phenomena in language, animal behaviour, genetics, neurology culture, and biology.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Notes on the contributors; 1. Introduction: evidence and inference in the study of language evolution; 2. What is special about the human language faculty and how did it get that way?; 3. Language has evolved to depend on multiple-cue integration; 4. Homesign as a way-station between co-speech gesture and sign language: the evolution of segmentation and sequencing; 5. Kin selection, pedagogy, and linguistic complexity: whence protolanguage?
- 6. Neanderthal linguistic abilities: an alternative view7. The archaeology of number concept and its implications for the evolution of language; 8. The evolution of semantics: sharing conceptual domains; 9. Speech-gesture links in the ontogeny and phylogeny of gestural communication; 10. Exploring the gaps between primate calls and human language; 11. Talking about apes, birds, bees, and other living creatures: language evolution in light of comparative animal behaviour; 12. FoxP2 and deep homology in the evolution of birdsong and human language
- 13. Genetics, evolution, and the innateness of languageReferences; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-965485-9
- 0-19-162647-3
- 0-19-965484-0
- OCLC:
- 861532845
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