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Publication details [#42970]

Cheney, Dorothy L. and Robert M. Seyfarth. 2005. Constraints and preadaptations in the earliest stages of language evolution. The Linguistic Review 22 (2/4) : 135–159.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | communication | constraints on variability | evolution of language

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TLIR/html

Annotation

This study argues that, in the earliest language evolution phases, communication had a formal structure that developed out of speaker knowledge of social relations.