TY  - BOOK
AU  - Botha,Rudolf P.
AU  - Knight,Chris
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - The prehistory of language
T2  - Studies in the evolution of language
AV  - P140 .P74 2009
U1  - 417/.7 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Historical linguistics
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Origin
KW  - Anthropological linguistics
KW  - Taalgenese
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-334) and index; Introduction; Rewards and challenges of multi-perspectival work on the evolution of language and speech; Rudolf Botha --; Why only humans have language; Robin Dunbar --; Is sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language?; Luc Steels --; Holistic communication and the co-evolution of language and music : resurrecting an old idea; Steven Mithen --; Music as a communicative medium; Ian Cross and Ghofur Eliot Woodruff --; Cultural niche construction : evolution's cradle of language; John Odling-Smee and Kevin N. Laland --; Playing with meaning : normative function and structure in play; Sonia Ragir and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh --; The ontogeny and phylogeny of non-verbal deixis; David A. Leavens, Timothy P. Racine, and William D. Hopkins --; The directed scratch : evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees?; Simone Pika and John C. Mitani --; The origins of the lexicon : how a word-store evolved; Maggie Tallerman --; Language : symbolization and beyond; Eric Reuland --; Grammaticalization from a biolinguistic perspective; Elly van Gelderen --; Recursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech; Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn --; Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution); Bart de Boer --; Mosaic neurobiology and anatomical plausibility; Wendy K. Wilkins; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
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ER  -