The prehistory of language [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight
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| Titolo: |
The prehistory of language [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | xviii, 348 p. : ill |
| Disciplina: | 417/.7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Historical linguistics |
| Language and languages - Origin | |
| Anthropological linguistics | |
| Taalgenese | |
| Classificazione: | 17.12 |
| Altri autori: |
BothaRudolf P
KnightChris <1942->
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| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-334) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ; 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The prehistory of language |
| ISBN: | 9780191562877 |
| 0191562874 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818842903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studies in the evolution of language ; ; 11.
Oxford linguistics.