Cognition and communication in the evolution of language / Anne Reboul.

This work shows that language, though now routinely used for communication, actually primarily evolved as a system for thought. Anne Reboul proposes a new two-step approach whereby syntax first evolved as a language of thought, which was then externalized for communication due to social selection pr...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Oxford Scholarship Online)
Main Author:	Reboul, Anne (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Oxford studies in biolinguistics.
Subjects:	Language and languages > Origin. Psycholinguistics. Biolinguistics.