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How human language evolved from the need for social communicationThe origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language-in its modern form-remains as elusive as ev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Seyfarth, Robert (Autor), Cheney, Dorothy (Autor)
Otros Autores: Arnold, Jennifer E. (Contribuidor), Cheney, Dorothy L. (Contribuidor), Godfrey-Smith, Peter (Contribuidor), McWhorter, John (Contribuidor), Petkov, Christopher I. (Contribuidor), Platt, Michael L. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Progovac, Ljiljana (Contribuidor), Seyfarth, Robert M. (Contribuidor), Wilson, Benjamin (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Colección:Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Series
Temas:
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • The Contributors
  • Introduction
  • PART 1
  • The Social Origins of Language
  • PART 2
  • Linguistics and Pragmatics
  • Where Is Continuity Likely to be Found?
  • Fluency Effects in Human Language
  • Relational Knowledge and the Origins of Language
  • Primates, Cephalopods, and the Evolution of Communication
  • PART 3
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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