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This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Internationally renowned scholars address the fossil, genetic, and archaeological evidence and critically examine...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Botha, Rudolf P., Knight, Chris, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Colección:Oxford linguistics.
Studies in the evolution of language ; 12.
Temas:
Language and languages > Origin.
Historical linguistics > Africa.
Anthropological linguistics > Africa.
Sociolinguistics > Africa.
Langage et langues > Origines.
Linguistique historique > Afrique.
Ethnolinguistique > Afrique.
Sociolinguistique > Afrique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Alphabets & Writing Systems.
Anthropological linguistics
Historical linguistics
Language and languages
Language and languages > Origin
Sociolinguistics
Africa > Languages.
Afrique > Langues.
Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : perspectives on the evolution of language in Africa / Chris Knight
  • Earliest personal ornaments and their significance for the origin of language debate / Francesco d'Errico and Marian Vanhaeren
  • Reading the artifacts : gleaning language skills from the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa / Christopher Stuart Henshilwood and Benoît Dubreuil
  • Red ochre, body painting, and language : interpreting the Blombos ochre / Ian Watts
  • Theoretical underpinnings of inferences about language evolution : the syntax used at Blombos Cave / Rudolf Botha
  • Fossil cues to the evolution of speech / W. Tecumseh Fitch
  • Evidence against a genetic-based revolution in language 50,000 years ago / Karl C. Diller and Rebecca L. Cann
  • A "language-free" explanation for differences between the European Middle and Upper Paleolithic record / Wil Roebroeks and Alexander Verpoorte
  • Diversity in languages, genes, and the language faculty / James R. Hurford and Dan Dediu
  • How varied typologically are the languages of Africa? / Michael Cysouw and Bernard Comrie
  • What click languages can and can't tell us about language origins / Bonny Sands and Tom Güldemann
  • Social origins : sharing, exchange, kinship / Alan Barnard
  • As well as words : Congo Pygmy hunting, mimicry, and play / Jerome Lewis
  • Sexual selection models for the emergence of symbolic communication : why they should be reversed / Camilla Power
  • Language, ochre, and the rule of law / Chris Knight.

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