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THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE OUT OF PRE-LANGUAGE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2007

Terence Odlin
Affiliation:
Ohio State University

Extract

THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE OUT OF PRE-LANGUAGE. Talmy Givón and Bertram F. Malle (Eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002. Pp. 394. $57.95 paper.

The notion that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny has a long tradition, with the collection here being a recent and cogent revisit of the idea. Among the possibly relevant data are, as the back cover states, “aspects of language learning that may serve as models of evolutionary change.”

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