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The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution

Maggie Tallerman editor Kathleen R Gibson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:17th Nov '11

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In The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field. The Volume's five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behaviour; the biology of language evolution (anatomy, genetics, and neurology); the prehistory of language (when and why did language evolve?); the development of a linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change. Research on language evolution has burgeoned over the last three decades. Interdisciplinary activity has produced fundamental advances in the understanding of language evolution and in human and primate evolution more generally. This book presents a wide-ranging summation of work in all the disciplines involved. It highlights the links in different lines of research, shows what has been achieved to date, and considers the most promising directions for future work. The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution will be valued by everyone interested in one of the most productive and fascinating fields in natural and cognitive science.

This volume makes a significant contribution to furthering interest in the evolution of language. * Caroline Lyon, Interaction Studies *
admirably fulfills the promise that [the] title holds, which is to gather together 62 of the best researchers on language evolution * Mark Aronoff, Evolutionary Linguistics *

ISBN: 9780199541119

Dimensions: 253mm x 179mm x 53mm

Weight: 1536g

790 pages