The Social Origins of Language /

The Social Origins of Language / / Dorothy Cheney, Robert Seyfarth; ed. by Michael L. Platt.

How human language evolved from the need for social communicationThe origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language-in its modern form-remains as elusive as ev...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Seyfarth, Robert,
Cheney, Dorothy,
MitwirkendeR:
Arnold, Jennifer E.,
Cheney, Dorothy L.,
Godfrey-Smith, Peter,
McWhorter, John,
Petkov, Christopher I.,
Platt, Michael L.,
Progovac, Ljiljana,
Seyfarth, Robert M.,
Wilson, Benjamin,
TeilnehmendeR:
Platt, Michael L.
HerausgeberIn:
Platt, Michael L.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©2018
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.) :; 4 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • The Contributors
  • Introduction
  • PART 1
  • The Social Origins of Language
  • PART 2
  • Linguistics and Pragmatics
  • Where Is Continuity Likely to be Found?
  • Fluency Effects in Human Language
  • Relational Knowledge and the Origins of Language
  • Primates, Cephalopods, and the Evolution of Communication
  • PART 3
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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