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This Element gives an overview of the current state-of-the-art of language evolution research and discusses how cognitive linguistics and research on the evolution of language can cross-fertilise each other. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. Comparing the 'design features' of language and animal communication; 3. Signing apes and talking birds: language-trained animals; 4. Cooperation and communication: the joint attention hypothesis; 5. Language evolution in the lab; 6. Real-world language dynamics: what language emergence and change reveal about evolution; 7. A usage-based perspective on the evolution of language; References.
Zusammenfassung
This Element gives an overview of the current state-of-the-art of language evolution research and discusses how cognitive linguistics and research on the evolution of language can cross-fertilise each other. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Vorwort
This Element brings together Cognitive Linguistics and language evolution research.