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Language Origins

Perspectives on Evolution

Maggie Tallerman editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:26th May '05

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This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how and why it evolved; how it came to be culturally transmitted; and how languages diversified. It does so from the perspective of the latest work in linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and computer science, and deploys the latest methods and theories to probe into the origins and subsequent development of the only species that has languages.

...will interest a wide range of linguists, cognitive scientists, biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and experts in artificial intelligence, as well as all those fascinated by issues, puzzles, and problems raised by the evolution of language. * Folia Linguistica *

ISBN: 9780199279036

Dimensions: 242mm x 162mm x 30mm

Weight: 809g

448 pages