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The evolutionary emergence of language : evidence and inference / Rudolf Botha and Martin Everaert

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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Botha, Rudolf P. and Everaert, Martin
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: evidence and inference in the study of language evolution / Martin Everaert -- 2.What is special about the human language faculty and how did it get that way? / Stephen R. Anderson -- 3.Language has evolved to depend on multiple-cue integration / Morten H. Christiansen -- 4.Homesign as a way-station between co-speech gesture and sign language: the evolution of segmentation and sequencing / Susan Goldin-Meadow -- 5.Kin selection, pedagogy, and linguistic complexity: whence protolanguage? / Maggie Tallerman -- 6.Neanderthal linguistic abilities: an alternative view / Wil Roebroeks -- 7.The archaeology of number concept and its implications for the evolution of language / Karenleigh A. Overmann -- 8.The evolution of semantics: sharing conceptual domains / Peter Gardenfors -- 9.Speech-gesture links in the ontogeny and phylogeny of gestural communication / Helene Cochet -- 10.Exploring the gaps between primate calls and human language / Klaus Zuberbuhler -- 11.Talking about apes, birds, bees, and other living creatures: language evolution in light of comparative animal behaviour / Kathleen R. Gibson -- 12.FoxP2 and deep homology in the evolution of birdsong and human language / Constance Scharff -- 13.Genetics, evolution, and the innateness of language / Rebecca L. Cann.
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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.
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9780191759000 (ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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