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9780521630498: Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases
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ISBN 10: 0521630495 ISBN 13: 9780521630498
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1998

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This is one of the first systematic attempts to bring language within the neo-Darwinian framework of modern evolutionary theory. Twenty-four coordinated essays by linguists, phoneticians, anthropologists, psychologists and cognitive scientists explore the origins of the complex structure of human language, emphasizing its social (as opposed to purely practical) bases, and showing the mechanisms by which this structure emerges, is maintained, and develops.

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"The twenty-two contributors span an impressive diversity of fields...The book has many strengths and is a must-read for serious students of the biology evolution of language." Anthropological Linguistics

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521630495
ISBN 13 
9780521630498
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
452
Editor
Hurford James R., Studdert-Kennedy Michael, Knight Chris

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