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Vocalize-to-Localize? Meerkats do it for specific predators ... And babies point with their index finger toward targets of interest at about nine months, well before using language-specific that-demonstratives. With what-interrogatives they are universal and, as relativizers and complementizers, pla...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2009.
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| Colección: | Benjamins current topics ;
v. 13. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Vocalize-to-Localize? Meerkats do it for specific predators ... And babies point with their index finger toward targets of interest at about nine months, well before using language-specific that-demonstratives. With what-interrogatives they are universal and, as relativizers and complementizers, play an important role in grammar construction. Some alarm calls in nonhumans display more than mere localization: semantics and even syntax. Instead of telling another monomodal story about language origin, in this volume advocates of representational gestures, semantically transparent, but with a proble. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 311 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027289513 9027289514 9027222436 9789027222435 1282169890 9781282169890 9786612169892 6612169893 |
| ISSN: | 1874-0081 ; |