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Language Evolution
STUDIES IN THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
General Editors
James
R.
Hurford,
University of Edinburgh
Frederick J. Newmeyer,
University of Washington
This series provides a forum for work in linguistics and related fields
on the origins and evolution of language.
It
places a premium on scholarship,
readability. and rational thought.
PUBLISHED
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Bart de Boer
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Edited
by Alison Wray
Language Evolution
Edited by Morten
H.
Christiansen and Simon Kirby
PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE
SERIES
Language Diversity
Daniel Nettle
Function, Selection, and Innateness:
The Emergence of Language Universals
Simon Kirby
The Origins of Complex Language:
An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and J'ruth
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Language Evolution
Edited by
.Morten H. Christiansen
Simon Kirby
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