Title:
How language began : gesture and speech in human evolution / David McNeill.
Main Entry:
McNeill, David, Dr.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Publication Date:
2012.
Publication Place:
Cambridge ; New York :
ISBN:
9781107021211 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9781107605497 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Subject:
Language and languages -- Origin.
Speech and gesture.
Contents:
Introduction: Gesture and the origin of language -- What evolved (in part): The Growth Point -- How it evolved (in part): Mead's Loop -- Effects of Mead's Loop -- Ontogenesis in evolution, evolution in ontogenesis -- Alternatives, their limits, and the science base of the growth point.
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