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The Evolutionary Emergence of Language

The Evolutionary Emergence of Language Evidence and Inference - Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language

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Publisher's Synopsis

The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading scholars from linguistics, primatology, anthroplogy, and cognitive science 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. In their introduction the editors show how these approaches can be interrelated and deployed together through their use of comparable forms of inference and the similar conditions they place on the use of evidence. The Evolutionary Emergence of Language will interest everyone concerned with this intriguing and important subject, including those in linguistics, biology, anthropology, archaeology, neurology, and cognitive science.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780199654840
Publisher: OUP OXFORD
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
Edition: First Edition
DEWEY: 417.7
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 356
Weight: 698g
Height: 233mm
Width: 174mm
Spine width: 26mm