The biology of language  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Stanisław Puppel. 
 - Amsterdam ;  Philadelphia :  J. Benjamins,  c1995. 
 - x, 300 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/> "Papers presented and discussed at an international symposium held in December of 1988 at Czerniejewo, near Poznań, Poland"--Pref. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Chimps, children, and creoles : the need for caution / Jean Aichison -- Some problems with an evolutionary view of written language / David Barton -- Essentialism in language / Bernard H. Bichakjian -- The invention of the syllable : reflections of a humanist on the biology of language / Robert Payson Creed -- Genetic classification and the historical method / Angela Della Volpe -- Animal communication and human language : searching for their evolutionary relationship / Gábor Györi -- From proto-language to grammar / Martin Hildebrand-Nilshon -- The biological imperatives in communicative interaction / Mary Ritchie Key -- Ritual/representation as the semiogenetic precursor of hominid symbol use / Jo Liska -- Language acquisition and the essentialist-evolutionist debate / David J. Messer -- Group selection in the biocultural evolution of language : fate of the Neandertals revisited / Richard G. Milo and Duane Quiatt -- The biology of language / Harvey B. Sarles -- A possibility of quantum evolution of language / Włodzimierz Sedlak -- Biological and cultural factors in the evolution of language / David Smillie. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2012. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Biolinguistics--Congresses.<br/>Language and languages--Origin--Congresses.<br/>Historical linguistics--Congresses.<br/>Human evolution--Congresses.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P132  / .P86 1995eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>401