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Fitch, W. Tecumseh.

The evolution of language / W. Tecumseh Fitch. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2010. - xii, 610 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [521]-604) and index.

The lay of the land. Language from a biological perspective ; Evolution : consensus and controversy ; Language ; Animal cognition and communication -- Meet the ancestors. Meet the ancestors ; The LCA : our last common ancestor with chimpanzees ; Hominid paleontology and archaeology -- The evolution of speech. The evolution of the human vocal tract ; The evolution of vocal control : the neural basis for spoken language ; Models of the evolution of speech and phonology -- Evaluating phylogenetic models of language evolution. Historical overview : Western theories of language origin before Darwin ; Lexical protolanguage ; Signs before speech : gestural protolanguage theories ; Musical protolanguage.

ISBN: 052167736X (pbk.) 052185993X 9780521677363 (pbk.) 9780521859936

LCCN: 2010502306

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA999486 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015391261 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Historical linguistics.
Language and languages--Origin.

LC Class. No.: P116 / .F58 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 417.7