The Oxford handbook of language evolution
by Maggie Tallerman and Kathleen Rita Gibson
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"In The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field. Its five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behavior; the biology of language evolution (anatomy, genetics, and neurology); the prehistory of language (when and why did language evolve?); the development of a linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change. Research on language evolution has burgeoned over the last three decades. Interdisciplinary activity has produced fundamental advances in the understanding of language evolution and in human and primate evolution more generally. The book presents a wide-ranging summation of work in all the disciplines involved. It highlights the links in different lines of research, shows what has been achieved to date, and considers the most promising directions for future work"--Publisher.
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The Oxford handbook of language evolution
2012, Oxford University Press
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0199541116 9780199541119
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [640]-721) and indexes.
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