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020			_a9781139108669 (ebook)
020			_z9781107021211 (hardback)
020			_z9781107605497 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aP116 _b.M455 2012
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100	1		_aMcNeill, David, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHow Language Began : _bGesture and Speech in Human Evolution / _cDavid McNeill.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (280 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aApproaches to the Evolution of Language
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aHuman language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together into a system that all humans possess. Nearly all theorizing about the origins of language either ignores gesture, views it as an add-on or supposes that language began in gesture and was later replaced by speech. David McNeill challenges the popular 'gesture-first' theory that language first emerged in a gesture-only form and proposes a groundbreaking theory of the evolution of language which explains how speech and gesture became unified.
650		0	_aSpeech and gesture
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107021211
830		0	_aApproaches to the Evolution of Language.
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139108669
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37956 _d37956