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100 1 _aFitch, W. Tecumseh.
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245 1 4 _aThe evolution of language /
_cW. Tecumseh Fitch.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_cc2010.
300 _axii, 610 p. :
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_c25 cm.
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [521]-604) and index.
505 0 _aThe lay of the land. Language from a biological perspective ; Evolution : consensus and controversy ; Language ; Animal cognition and communication -- Meet the ancestors. Meet the ancestors ; The LCA : our last common ancestor with chimpanzees ; Hominid paleontology and archaeology -- The evolution of speech. The evolution of the human vocal tract ; The evolution of vocal control : the neural basis for spoken language ; Models of the evolution of speech and phonology -- Evaluating phylogenetic models of language evolution. Historical overview : Western theories of language origin before Darwin ; Lexical protolanguage ; Signs before speech : gestural protolanguage theories ; Musical protolanguage.
650 0 _aLanguage and languages
_xOrigin.
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650 0 _aHistorical linguistics.
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856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1013/2010502306-b.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
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