TY  - BOOK
AU  - Botha,Rudolf P.
AU  - Knight,Chris
TI  - The cradle of language
T2  - [Oxford linguistics]
SN  - 9780191567674
AV  - P116 .C73 2009eb
U1  - 409.6 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Origin
KW  - Historical linguistics
KW  - Africa
KW  - Anthropological linguistics
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - Langage et langues
KW  - Origines
KW  - Linguistique historique
KW  - Afrique
KW  - Ethnolinguistique
KW  - Sociolinguistique
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Alphabets & Writing Systems
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Languages
KW  - Langues
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Series "Oxford linguistics" from dust jkb; Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-364) and index; Introduction : perspectives on the evolution of language in Africa / Chris Knight -- Earliest personal ornaments and their significance for the origin of language debate / Francesco d'Errico and Marian Vanhaeren -- Reading the artifacts : gleaning language skills from the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa / Christopher Stuart Henshilwood and Benoît Dubreuil -- Red ochre, body painting, and language : interpreting the Blombos ochre / Ian Watts -- Theoretical underpinnings of inferences about language evolution : the syntax used at Blombos Cave / Rudolf Botha -- Fossil cues to the evolution of speech / W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Evidence against a genetic-based revolution in language 50,000 years ago / Karl C. Diller and Rebecca L. Cann -- A "language-free" explanation for differences between the European Middle and Upper Paleolithic record / Wil Roebroeks and Alexander Verpoorte -- Diversity in languages, genes, and the language faculty / James R. Hurford and Dan Dediu -- How varied typologically are the languages of Africa? / Michael Cysouw and Bernard Comrie -- What click languages can and can't tell us about language origins / Bonny Sands and Tom Güldemann -- Social origins : sharing, exchange, kinship / Alan Barnard -- As well as words : Congo Pygmy hunting, mimicry, and play / Jerome Lewis -- Sexual selection models for the emergence of symbolic communication : why they should be reversed / Camilla Power -- Language, ochre, and the rule of law / Chris Knight
N2  - This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Internationally renowned scholars address the fossil, genetic, and archaeological evidence and critically examine the ways it has been interpreted. - ;This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Scholars from around the world address the fossil, genetic, and archaeologica
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