Abstract:This volume impressively synthesises vast literatures from the
fields of linguistics,
bioacoustics, psychology, neurobiology, evolutionary biology, ethology
and anthropology, and in the process raises a number of provocative questions
regarding the contentious issue of human language origins. Because
the book is so far-reaching, both in terms of the breadth of communicative
phenomena which it covers and the depth in which it discusses them, a short
review such as the present one can only scratch the sur… Show more
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