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020 $a9780199545872 (cased)
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050 00 $aP140$b.P74 2009
084 $a17.12$2bcl
245 04 $aThe prehistory of language /$cedited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2009.
300 $axviii, 348 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aStudies in the evolution of language ;$v11
490 1 $aOxford linguistics
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [287]-334) and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction:$tRewards and challenges of multi-perspectival work on the evolution of language and speech /$rRudolf Botha --$tWhy only humans have language /$rRobin Dunbar --$tIs sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language? /$rLuc Steels --$tHolistic communication and the co-evolution of language and music : resurrecting an old idea /$rSteven Mithen --$tMusic as a communicative medium /$rIan Cross and Ghofur Eliot Woodruff --$tCultural niche construction : evolution's cradle of language /$rJohn Odling-Smee and Kevin N. Laland --$tPlaying with meaning : normative function and structure in play /$rSonia Ragir and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh --$tThe ontogeny and phylogeny of non-verbal deixis /$rDavid A. Leavens, Timothy P. Racine, and William D. Hopkins --$tThe directed scratch : evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees? /$rSimone Pika and John C. Mitani --$tThe origins of the lexicon : how a word-store evolved /$rMaggie Tallerman --$tLanguage : symbolization and beyond /$rEric Reuland --$tGrammaticalization from a biolinguistic perspective /$rElly van Gelderen --$tRecursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech /$rFrederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn --$tWhy women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution) /$rBart de Boer --$tMosaic neurobiology and anatomical plausibility /$rWendy K. Wilkins.
650 0 $aHistorical linguistics.
650 0 $aLanguage and languages$xOrigin.
650 0 $aAnthropological linguistics.
650 17 $aTaalgenese.$2gtt
700 1 $aBotha, Rudolf P.
700 1 $aKnight, Chris,$d1942-
830 0 $aOxford linguistics.
830 0 $aStudies in the evolution of language ;$v11.