The first word : the search for the origins of language / Christine Kenneally.
The first word : the search for the origins of language / Christine Kenneally.
The first word : the search for the origins of language / Christine Kenneally.
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New York : Viking, 2007.
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2007.
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N400/55
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English
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viii, 357 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
I. Language is not a thing -- 1. Noam Chomsky -- 2. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh -- 3. Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom -- 4. Philip lieberman -- II. If you have human language ... -- 5. You have something to talk about -- 6. You have words -- 7. You have gestures -- 8. You have speech -- 9. You have structure -...
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New York : Viking, 2007.
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New York (State)
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2007.
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The search for the origin of human language has finally come of age. For centuries, progress in Ur-language research was slow and spasmodic; many scientists came to believe that there was no definitive way to answer its central questions. Then, in the past 20 years, everything changed. Linguist Kenneally shows how linguists, cognitive scientists, a...
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The first word : the search for the origins of language / Christine Kenneally.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-340) and index.
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N400/55
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74VKzdj7e3rO
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0670034908 (alk. paper)
9780670034901 (alk. paper)
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400
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991023364509702626
