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How language began :...
MARC Display
How language began : the story of humanity's greatest invention / Daniel L. Everett.
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2017.
ISBN:
9780871407955
(hc.)
Description:
xviii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Edition:
First American edition.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part One: The First Hominins; 1. Rise of the Hominins -- 2. The Fossil Hunters -- 3. The Hominins Depart -- 4. Everyone Speaks Languages of Signs -- Part Two: Human Biological Adaptations for Language; 5. Humans Get a Better Brain -- 6. How the Brain Makes Language Possible -- 7. When the Brain Goes Wrong -- 8. Talking with Tongues -- Part Three: The Evolution of Language Form; 9. Where Grammar Came From -- 10. Talking with the Hands -- 11. Just Good Enough -- Part Four: Cultural Evolution of Language; 12. Communities and Communication -- Conclusion.
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