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Origins of human communication / Michael Tomasello.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tomasello, Michael.
- Series:
- Jean Nicod lectures
- The Jean Nicod lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Origin.
- Language and languages.
- Animal communication.
- Physical Description:
- 392 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First MIT Press paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- Presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian view.
- Contents:
- A focus on infrastructure
- Primate intentional communication
- Human cooperative communication
- Ontogenetic origins
- Phylogenetic origins
- The grammatical dimension
- From ape gestures to human language.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262515207
- 0262515202
- OCLC:
- 623971324
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