The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution (Hardcover, New)

In The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field. Its five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behavior; the biology of language evolution (anatomy, genetics, and neurology); the prehistory of language (when and why did language evolve?); the development of a linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change.
Research on language evolution has burgeoned over the last three decades. Interdisciplinary activity has produced fundamental advances in the understanding of language evolution and in human and primate evolution more generally. The book presents a wide-ranging summation of work in all the disciplines involved. It highlights the links in different lines of research, shows what has been achieved to date, and considers the most promising directions for future work.
The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution will be valued by everyone interested in one of the most productive and fascinating fields in natural and cognitive science.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Release date:	November 2011
First published:	2012
Editors:	Maggie Tallerman • Kathleen R. Gibson
Dimensions:	253 x 179 x 53mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	790
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-954111-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-954111-6
Barcode:	9780199541119

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