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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The prehistory of language [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"0-19-954588-X"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-282-26879-1"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-19-156287-4"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786612268793"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (368 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Studies in the evolution of language ; ; 11"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Oxford linguistics"]
[null,null,"Classificazione",null,"17.12"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"417/.7"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Historical linguistics"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Language and languages - Origin"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Anthropological linguistics"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Taalgenese"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-334) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"; 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 "]
[{"$nulls":4},"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."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Prominent linguists, cognitive scientists, archaeologists, primatologists, anthropologists, and natural scientists examine issues and advances in understanding language evolution, ranging from the co-evolution of language and music to the evolutionary biology of language. An important and stylish contribution to a fascinating area of research. - ;'When, why, and how did language evolve?' 'Why do only humans have language?' This book looks at these and other questions about the origins and evolution of language. It does so via a rich diversity of perspectives, including social, cultural, archae"]