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|a Language origins :
|b perspectives on evolution
|c edited by Maggie Tallerman
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|a Oxford :
|b Oxford University Press ,
|c 2005
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|a xx, 426 p. :
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|c 24 cm.
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|a Studies in the evolution of language
|v 4
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|a Papers originally presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Evolution of Language, held in March 2002 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.
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|a Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-421) and index
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|a Introduction: Language origins and evolutionary processes / Maggie Tallerman -- Pt. 1. Evolution of speech and speech sounds: how did spoken language emerge? -- Introduction to part 1: How did links between perception and production emerge for spoken language? / Michael Studdert-Kennedy -- The mirror system hypothesis : how did protolanguage evolve? / Michael Arbib -- How did language go discrete? / Michael Studdert-Kennedy -- From holistic to discrete speech sounds: the blind snowflake-maker hypothesis / Pierre-Yves Oudeyer -- Infant-directed speech and evolution of language / Bart de Boer -- Pt. 2. Evolution of grammar: how did syntax and morphology emerge? -- Introduction to part 2: Protolanguage and the development of complexity / Maggie Tallerman -- Initial syntax and modern syntax: did the clause evolve from the syllable? / Maggie Tallerman -- The potential role of production in the evolution of syntax / Dana McDaniel -- The evolutionary origin of morphology / Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy -- The evolution of grammatical structures and ?functional need? explanations / Bernard Comrie and Tania Kuteva -- Deception and mate selection: some implications for relevance and the evolution of language / Bradley Franks and Kate Rigby -- Pt. 3. Analogous and homologous traits: what can we learn from other species? -- Introduction to pt. 3: The broadening scope of animal communication research / Alison Wray -- An avian perspective on language evolution: implications of simultaneous development of vocal and physical object combinations by a grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) / Irene Maxine Pepperberg -- Linguistic prerequisites in the primate lineage / Klaus Zuberbuhler -- Pt. 4. Learnibility and diversity: how did languages emerge and diverge? -- Introduction to part 4: Computer modelling widens the focus of language study / James R. Hurford -- Cultural selection for learnability: three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable / Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby, and Kenny Smith -- Co-evolution of the language faculty and languages(s) with decorrelated encodings / Ted Briscoe -- Acquisition and evolution of quasi-regular languages: two puzzles for the price of one / Matthew Roberts, Luca Onnis, and Nick Chater -- Evolution of language diversity: why fitness counts / Zach Solan ... [et al.] -- Mutual exclusivity: communicative success despite conceptual divergence / Andrew D.M. Smith
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|a Human evolution
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|a Language and languages
|x Origin
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|a Language and languages
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|a Tallerman, Maggie ,
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|a International Conference on the Evolution of Language (4th : 2002 : Cambridge, Mass.)
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|c OPEN SHELF (30 DAYS)
|e Gong Badak Campus
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