The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Evidence and Inference

by Martin Everaert

Book Overview

The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading scholars from linguistics, primatology, anthroplogy, and cognitive science consider how language evolution can be understood by means of inference from the study of linked or analogous phenomena in language, animal behaviour, genetics, neurology, culture, and biology. In their introduction the editors show...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199654859
• ISBN13: 9780199654857
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"