From Hand to Mouth : : The Origins of Language / / Michael C. Corballis.
It is often said that speech is what distinguishes us from other animals. But are we all talk? What if language was bequeathed to us not by word of mouth, but as a hand-me-down? The notion that language evolved not from animal cries but from manual and facial gestures--that, for most of human histor...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 13 color illus. 5 tables |
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