Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 452 pages
- Published by: Cambridge University Press October 28, 1998
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0521639646
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521639644
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Product Description
This is one of the first systematic attempts to bring language within the neo-Darwinian framework of modern evolutionary theory. Twenty-four coordinated essays by linguists, phoneticians, anthropologists, psychologists and cognitive scientists explore the origins of the complex structure of human language, emphasizing its social (as opposed to purely practical) bases, and showing the mechanisms by which this structure emerges, is maintained, and develops.
Book Description
This is one of the first systematic attempts to bring language within the neo-Darwinian framework of modern evolutionary theory. 24 co-ordinated essays by linguists, phoneticians, anthropologists, psychologists and cognitive scientists explore the origins of the complex structure of human language, emphasizing its social (as opposed to purely practical) bases, and showing the mechanisms by which this structure emerges, is maintained, and devlops.
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