About this title: The evolutionary emergence of each facet of human language can be viewed as a 'transition'. This book explores how different transitions took place, their preconditions, and their consequences. Among the questions it addresses are: what physiological and psychological differences between us and other animals lie at the heart of our superior capacity for language? Was the pre-linguistic period of humankind characterized by words without syntax, syntax without meaning, gesture without speech, or all, or none, of these? Once a community is ready and able to develop language, what internal and ...
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Edition: illustrated edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 5/23/2002
ISBN-13:9780199250660ISBN:0199250669
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780199250660ISBN:0199250669
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 234x156 mm. (422) linguists, biological anthropologists, and cognitive scientists come together in this book to explore the origins and early evolution of phonology, syntax, and semantics. they consider the nature of pre-and proto-linguistic communication, the internal and external triggers that led to its transformation into language, and whether and how language may be considered to have evolved after its inception. evidence is drawn from many domains, including computer ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2002
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780199250660ISBN:0199250669
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2002-05-23
ISBN-13:9780199250660ISBN:0199250669
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