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Description

1. 1 online resource (230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Summary

1. How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it? 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. These include shell-beads, fossil skulls and ancestral brains, modern pidgin and creole languages, homesign systems and emergent sign languages, modern motherese, language use of modern hunter-gatherers, first language acquisition, similarities between language and music, and comparative animal behaviour. The first systematic analysis of the Windows Approach, it will be of interest to students and researchers in many disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, palaeontology and primatology, as well as anyone interested in how language evolved.

Series statement

1. Approaches to the Evolution of Language

Uniform title

1. Approaches to the Evolution of Language.

Note

1. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 May 2016).

Author

1. Botha, Rudolf P., author.

Title

1. Language Evolution : The Windows Approach / Rudolf Botha.

Publisher

1. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. computer

Type of carrier

1. online resource

Series

1. Approaches to the Evolution of Language
2. Approaches to the Evolution of Language.

Connect to:

1. Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Other form:

1. Print version: 9781107135130