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008			081020s2009 nyua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2008045906
020			_a9780809022816 (alk. paper)
020			_a0809022818 (alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn243544631
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041			_aeng
050	0	0	_aP106 _b.B4667 2009
080			_a811 _bB-56
082	0	0	_a401 _222
100	1		_aBickerton, Derek.
245	1	0	_aAdam's tongue : _bhow humans made language, how language made humans / _c/ by: Hill and Wang
250			_a1st edition
260			_aNew York _bHill and Wang _c2009.
300			_a286 p. _bill. _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-271) and index.
505	0		_aThe size of the problem -- Thinking like engineers -- Singing apes? -- Chatting apes? -- Niches aren't everything (they-re the only thing) -- Our ancestors in their niches -- Go to the ant, thou sluggard -- The big bang -- The challenge from Chomsky -- Making up our minds -- An acorn grows to a sapling -- The sapling becomes an oak.
520			_aHow language evolved has been called "the hardest problem in science." Linguist Derek Bickerton shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. This book is the first that thoroughly integrates the story of how language evolved with the story of how humans evolved. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn't the only thing that sets us apart from other species--our cognitive powers are qualitatively different. So could there be two separate discontinuities between humans and the rest of nature? No, says Bickerton; he shows how the mere possession of symbolic units--words--automatically opened a new and different cognitive universe.--From publisher description.
650		0	_aLanguage and languages.
650		0	_aLinguistics _9445
650		0	_aHuman evolution.
650		0	_aPsycholinguistics.
653			_aლინგვისტიკა
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