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The evolutionary emergence of language : evidence and inference

Title: The evolutionary emergence of language : evidence and inference / edited by Rudolf Botha, Martin Everaert.
Publication: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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xviii, 334 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford linguistics
Oxford studies in the evolution of language ; 17

Uniform Title

Oxford linguistics.
Studies in the evolution of language ; 17.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-323) and index.

Contents

Introduction: evidence and inference in the study of language evolution / Rudolf Botha and Martin Everaert -- What is special about the human language faculty and how did it get that way? / Stephen R. Anderson -- Language has evolved to depend on multiple-cue integration / Morten H. Christiansen -- Homesign as a way-station between co-speech gesture and sign language: the evolution of segmentation and sequencing / Ann Senghas, Asli Özyürek, and Susan Goldin-Meadow -- Kin selection, pedagogy, and linguistic complexity: whence protolanguage? / Maggie Tallerman -- Neanderthal linguistic abilities: an alternative view / Katharine MacDonald and Wil Roebroeks -- The archaeology of number concept and its implications for the evolution of language / Thomas Wynn, Frederick L. Coolidge, and Karenleigh A. Overmann -- The evolution of semantics: sharing conceptual domains / Peter Gärdenfors -- Speech-gesture links in the ontogeny and phylogeny of gestural communication / Jacques Vauclair and Hélène Cochet -- Exploring the gaps between primate calls and human language / Alban Lemasson, Karim Ouattara, and Klaus Zuberbühler -- Talking about the apes, birds, bees, and other living creatures: language evolution in light of comparative animal behaviour / Kathleen R. Gibson -- FoxP2 and deep homology in the evolution of birdsong and human language / Alan Langus, Jana Petri, Marina Nespor, and Constance Scharff -- Genetics, evolution, and the innateness of language / Karl C. Diller and Rebecca L. Cann.

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JFE 13-7899

ISBN

9780199654857 (pbk.)
0199654859 (pbk.)
0199654840
9780199654840

OCLC

828055639

Title

The evolutionary emergence of language : evidence and inference / edited by Rudolf Botha, Martin Everaert.

Imprint

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

Oxford linguistics

Oxford studies in the evolution of language ; 17

Oxford linguistics.

Studies in the evolution of language ; 17.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-323) and index.

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Botha, Rudolf P.

Everaert, Martin.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-7899

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