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13 - Language Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2018

Allison Burkette  and
William A. Kretzschmar Jr.
Allison Burkette
Affiliation:
University of Mississippi
William A. Kretzschmar Jr.
Affiliation:
University of Georgia
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Exploring Linguistic Science
Language Use, Complexity, and Interaction
 , pp. 145 - 153
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Bickerton, Derek. 1990. Language and Species. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Mufwene, Salikoko. 2001. The Ecology of Language Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tomasello, Michael. 2008. On the Origins of Human Communication. Boston, MA: MIT Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fitch, Hauser, and Chomsky, Noam. 2005. The Evolution of the Language Faculty: Clarifications and Implications. Cognition 97, 179–210.Google Scholar
Hauser, Marc, Chomsky, Noam, and Fitch, Tecumseh. 2002. The Faculty of Language: What It Is, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? Science 298, 1569–1579.Google Scholar
Jackendoff, R. and Pinker, S. 2005. “The Nature of the Language Faculty And Its Implications for Evolution of Language (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, and Chomsky).” Cognition 97, 211–225.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pinker, S., and Bloom, P.. 1990. Natural Language and Natural Selection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13:4, 707–784.Google Scholar
Pinker, Steven, and Jackendoff, R.. 2005. “The Faculty of Language: What’s Special About It?” Cognition 95, 201–236.Google Scholar

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