How language began
Subtitle: gesture and speech in human evolution
By: David McNeill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781107021211
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Origin; Speech and gesture; Language and languages
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Gesture and the origin of language; title: What evolved (in part): The Growth Point; title: How it evolved (in part): Mead's Loop; title: Effects of Mead's Loop; title: Ontogenesis in evolution, evolution in ontogenesis; title: Alternatives, their limits, and the science base of the growth point.