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The prehistory of language [electronic resource] / edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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1 online resource (xviii, 348 pages) : illustrations
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Botha, Rudolf P. and Knight, Chris, 1942-
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: rewards and challenges of multi-perspectival work on the evolution of language and speech / Rudolf Botha -- 2.Why only humans have language / Robin Dunbar -- 3.Is sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language? / Luc Steels -- 4.Holistic communication and the co-evolution of language and music: resurrecting an old idea / Steven Mithen -- 5.Music as a communicative medium / Ian Cross / Ghofur Eliot Woodruff -- 6.Cultural niche Construction: evolution's cradle of language / John Odling-Smee / Kevin N. Laland -- 7.Playing with meaning: normative function and structure in play / Sonia Ragir / Sue Savage-Rumbaugh -- 8.The ontogeny and phylogeny of non-verbal deixis / William D. Hopkins / David A. Leavens / Timothy P. Racine -- 9.The directed scratch: evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees? / Simone Pika / John C. Mitani -- 10.The origins of the lexicon: how a word-store evolved / Maggie Tallerman -- 11.Language: symbolization and beyond / Eric Reuland -- 12.Grammaticalization from a biolinguistic perspective / Elly van Gelderen -- 13.Recursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech / Frederick L. Coolidge / Thomas Wynn -- 14.Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution) / Bart de Boer -- 15.Mosaic neurobiology and anatomical plausibility / Wendy K. Wilkins.
Summary
Prominent linguists, cognitive scientists, archaeologists primatologists, anthropologists, and natural scientists examine issues and advances in understanding language evolution, ranging from the co-evolution of language and music to the evolutionary biology of language.
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9780191720369 (ebook)
0191720364 (ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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