Language and human behavior / Derek Bickerton.
Language and human behavior / Derek Bickerton.
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Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1995.
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T0383546
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English
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180 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
What language is -- Language and evolution -- Language and intelligence -- Language and consciousness -- Appendix A: Samples of protolanguage.
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Publisher
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1995.
Place of Publication
Washington (State)
Date Published
c1995.
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Summary
The term protolanguage is used to describe the stringing together of symbols that prehuman hominids employed. "It did not allow them to turn today's imagination into tomorrow's fact. But it is just this power to transform imagination into fact that distinguishes human behavior from that of our ancestral species, and indeed from that of all other sp...
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Language and human behavior / Derek Bickerton.
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The Jessie and John Danz lectures.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-176) and index.
Transferred from N400/45.
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c1995.
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T0383546
Record Identifier
74VMl0vX3O2Z
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMl0vX3O2Z
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ISBN
0295974583 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780295974576 (cloth : alk. paper)
0295974575 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780295974583 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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400
MMS ID
991003471019702626
