Approaches to the Evolution of Language

Hurford,James R

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Author
Hurford,James R
Publish Date
10/28/1998
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
CAMBRUP
Subtitle
Social and Cognitive Bases
Number of Pages
442
Edition
1
ISBN-10
0521639646
ISBN-13
9780521639644
SKU
9780521639644

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.