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N2  - This book provides a critical introduction to the current views and controversies regarding language evolution. It sheds new light on hot topics such as: How ancient is language? Did Neanderthals have some form of language? Did language evolve gradually and incrementally, through stages, or suddenly, in one leap, in all its complexity? Does language evolution involve natural selection or not? This book is essential reading for scholars and students interested in language evolution, especially those in the fields of linguistics, psychology, biology, anthropology, and neuroscience. .
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-03235-7
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AB  - This book provides a critical introduction to the current views and controversies regarding language evolution. It sheds new light on hot topics such as: How ancient is language? Did Neanderthals have some form of language? Did language evolve gradually and incrementally, through stages, or suddenly, in one leap, in all its complexity? Does language evolution involve natural selection or not? This book is essential reading for scholars and students interested in language evolution, especially those in the fields of linguistics, psychology, biology, anthropology, and neuroscience. .
T1  - A Critical Introduction to Language Evolution :Current Controversies and Future Prospects /
DA  - 2019.
CY  - Cham :
AU  - Progovac, Ljiljana.
ET  - 1st ed. 2019.
CN  - P140-P143.3
PB  - Springer International Publishing :
PB  - Imprint: Springer,
PP  - Cham :
PY  - 2019.
N1  - Editor introduction; Helen Aristar-Dry -- 1. Introduction to Divergent Views -- 2. Sudden (Saltationist) Approaches to Language Evolution -- 3. Gradualist Approaches to Language Evolution -- 4. Putting it all Together: The Language-Brain-Genes Loop.
ID  - 1360234
KW  - Historical linguistics.
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Linguistics.
KW  - Anthropological linguistics.
KW  - Cognitive grammar.
SN  - 9783030032357
SN  - 3030032353
SN  - 9783030032340
SN  - 3030032345
SN  - 9783030032364
SN  - 3030032361
TI  - A Critical Introduction to Language Evolution :Current Controversies and Future Prospects /
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