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Title: The prehistory of language / edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight.
Studies in the evolution of language ;
Oxford linguistics
Oxford linguistics.
Studies in the evolution of language ;

Main Entry: Botha, Rudolf P. editor.
Knight, Chris, 1942- joint editor.

Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Publication Date: 2009.
Publication Place: Oxford ; New York :
ISBN: 9780199545872
Subject: Historical linguistics.
Language and languages -- Origin.
Anthropological linguistics.
Linguistique historique.
Langage et langues -- Origines.
Ethnolinguistique.

Series: Studies in the evolution of language ; 11
Oxford linguistics
Oxford linguistics.
Studies in the evolution of language ; 11.

Contents: Rewards and challenges of multi-perspectival work on the evolution of language and speech / Why only humans have language / Is sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language? / Holistic communication and the co-evolution of language and music : resurrecting an old idea / Music as a communicative medium / Cultural niche construction : evolution's cradle of language / Playing with meaning : normative function and structure in play / The ontogeny and phylogeny of non-verbal deixis / The directed scratch : evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees? / The origins of the lexicon : how a word-store evolved / Language : symbolization and beyond / Grammaticalization from a biolinguistic perspective / Recursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech / Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution) / Mosaic neurobiology and anatomical plausibility /
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