Cooperation, competition and the evolution of prelinguistic communication (2000)
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Abstract
Theories of the origin of language are necessarily speculative. Calvin (1983) suggests that the development of language involved a transfer of the skills involved in stone throwing; Knight (1998) puts the roots of language in ritual; Bickerton (1998) argues that language ... \n
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Noble, J. (2000). Cooperation, competition and the evolution of prelinguistic communication. In C. Knight, M. Studdert-Kennedy, & J. R. Hurford (Eds.), The evolutionary emergence of language: Social function and the origins of linguistic form (pp. 40-61). New York: Cambridge University Press.
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| Publication year | 2000 | |
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| Document type: | In book | |
| Publication status: | Published | |
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