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The Origins of Meaning : Language in the Light of Evolution.

In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at the origins of meaning and of its expression in language and reviews a mass of evidence to uncover the evolutionary path between the non-speaking minds of apes and o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hurford, James R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK, 2007.
Colección:Studies in the evolution of language.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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