Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy & James R. Hurford (Eds.). The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form. Cambridge University Press, 2000. xi + 426 pp.

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Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy & James R. Hurford (Eds.). The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form. Cambridge University Press, 2000. xi + 426 pp.

Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy & James R. Hurford (Eds.). The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form. Cambridge University Press, 2000. xi + 426 pp.