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Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Denis Bouchard
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Denis Bouchard looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language evolved. He argues that language is a system of signs and considers h
The Origins of Life
Language: en
Pages: 191
Authors: John Maynard Smith
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Presents, for the general readership, the novel picture of evolution proposed in the 1995 book, The major transitions in evolution.
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Language: en
Pages: 462
Authors: Otto Jespersen
Categories: Language and languages
Type: BOOK - Published: 1922 - Publisher:

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Gesture and the Nature of Language
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: David F. Armstrong
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-03-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book proposes a radical alternative to dominant views of the evolution of language, in particular the origins of syntax. The authors draw on evidence from
The Gestural Origin of Language
Language: en
Pages: 162
Authors: David F. Armstrong
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-19 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In The Gestural Origin of Language, Sherman Wilcox and David Armstrong use evidence from and about sign languages to explore the origins of language as we know