Evolutionary Linguistics
- ISBN-10
- 0521814502
- ISBN-13
- 9780521814508
- Series
- Evolutionary Linguistics
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 330
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-10-11
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Authors
- Robert McMahon, April McMahon
Description
How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? This is an introduction to the interdisciplinary debates.
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