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This book is a collection of essays on the topic of language evolution. The essays are written by experts in the field and cover a variety of topics, including how language evolution can be understood by looking at similar phenomena in other areas of science. The book is intended for researchers in linguistics, biology, anthropology, archaeology, neurology, and cognitive science, and is sure to interest anyone interested in the topic.
The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading scholars from linguistics, primatology, anthroplogy, and cognitive science consider how language evolution can be understood by means of inference from the study of linked or analogous phenomena in language, animal behaviour, genetics, neurology, culture, and biology. In their introduction the editors show how these approaches can be interrelated and deployed together through their use of comparable forms of inference and the similar conditions they place on the use of evidence. The Evolutionary Emergence of Language will interest everyone concerned with this intriguing and important subject, including those in linguistics, biology, anthropology, archaeology, neurology, and cognitive science.
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