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The evolution of language / W. Tecumseh Fitch.

By: Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2010.Description: xii, 610 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780521859936
  • 052185993X
  • 9780521677363 (pbk.)
  • 052167736X (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 417.7 22
LOC classification:
  • P116 .F58 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
The lay of the land. Language from a biological perspective ; Evolution : consensus and controversy ; Language ; Animal cognition and communication -- Meet the ancestors. Meet the ancestors ; The LCA : our last common ancestor with chimpanzees ; Hominid paleontology and archaeology -- The evolution of speech. The evolution of the human vocal tract ; The evolution of vocal control : the neural basis for spoken language ; Models of the evolution of speech and phonology -- Evaluating phylogenetic models of language evolution. Historical overview : Western theories of language origin before Darwin ; Lexical protolanguage ; Signs before speech : gestural protolanguage theories ; Musical protolanguage.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks P116 .F58 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001146082

Includes bibliographical references (p. [521]-604) and index.

The lay of the land. Language from a biological perspective ; Evolution : consensus and controversy ; Language ; Animal cognition and communication -- Meet the ancestors. Meet the ancestors ; The LCA : our last common ancestor with chimpanzees ; Hominid paleontology and archaeology -- The evolution of speech. The evolution of the human vocal tract ; The evolution of vocal control : the neural basis for spoken language ; Models of the evolution of speech and phonology -- Evaluating phylogenetic models of language evolution. Historical overview : Western theories of language origin before Darwin ; Lexical protolanguage ; Signs before speech : gestural protolanguage theories ; Musical protolanguage.

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