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Author:   Barbara J. King
Publisher:   James Currey
Imprint:   James Currey
Weight:   0.770kg
ISBN:  

9780852559031

ISBN 10:   0852559038
Pages:   450
Publication Date:   01 January 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Viewed from up close - monkeys, apes and theories of language origins, Barbara J. King; motivation, conventionalization and arbitrariness in the origin of language, Robbins Burling; the game of the name - continuity and discontinuity in language origins, Iain Davidson; language evolution and expansions of multiple neurological processsing areas, Kathleen Gibson; primate social organization, vocabulary size and communication dynamics - a comparative study of Macaques, Dario Maestripieri; children's transition to language - a human model for development of the vocal repertoire in the other primate species?; ape language -between a rock and a hard place, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh; an empiricist view of language evolution and development, Charles T. Snowden; the invention and ritualization of language, Sherman Wilcox.

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'...strongly recommended to anyone with an interest in primate behaviour and language.' - Adam Kendon in JRAI

...strongly recommended to anyone with an interest in primate behaviour and language.

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