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020			_a9780511817779 (ebook)
020			_z9780521859936 (hardback)
020			_z9780521677363 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aP116 _b.F58 2010
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100	1		_aFitch, W. Tecumseh, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Evolution of Language / _cW. Tecumseh Fitch.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (624 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			_aLanguage, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and not in others? Since Darwin's theory of evolution, questions about the origin of language have generated a rapidly-growing scientific literature, stretched across a number of disciplines, much of it directed at specialist audiences. The diversity of perspectives - from linguistics, anthropology, speech science, genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology - can be bewildering. Tecumseh Fitch cuts through this vast literature, bringing together its most important insights to explore one of the biggest unsolved puzzles of human history.
650		0	_aHistorical linguistics
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521859936
830		0	_aApproaches to the Evolution of Language.
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511817779
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
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