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Language Evolution: The Windows Approach
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Rudolf Botha · 2016
Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in his fascinating new book. Inferences can be drawn about language evolution from a range of other phenomena, serving as windows into this prehistoric process.
A Modern Theory of Language Evolution
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Carl J. Becker · 2004
From this perspective we can now retell the tribal stories from Iberia to Siberia, showing a common origin and motivation for human science and religion.
The Ecology of Language Evolution
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This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for genetic linguistics.
Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution
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Luc Steels · 2012
Explores the cultural side of language evolution. This book proposes a framework based on linguistic selection and self-organization.
A Critical Introduction to Language Evolution: Current ...
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Ljiljana Progovac · 2018
This book provides a critical introduction to the current views and controversies regarding language evolution.
Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change
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Salikoko S. Mufwene · 2008
This book examines the processes by which languages change, from the macroecological perspective of competition and natural selection.
The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution
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Maggie Tallerman, ‎Kathleen R. Gibson · 2012
Leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field, including work in animal behaviour; anatomy, genetics and neurology; the prehistory of language; the development of our uniquely linguistic species; and language ...
Language Evolution
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Morten H. Christiansen, ‎Simon Kirby · 2003
How did it evolve? Why are we unique in possessing it? This book, for the first time, brings together the leading thinkers who are trying to unlock the puzzle of language evolution.
Language, Evolution, and the Brain
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James W. MINETTinett, ‎William S-Y. WANG · 2009
This volume consists of an important collection of papers presented at the Seminar on Language, Evolution, and the Brain (SLEB), hosted by the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Kyoto, Japan, bringing together distinguished ...
Language Evolution and Developmental Impairments
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Arild Lian · 2016
This book gives an account of developmental language impairment from the perspective of language evolution.