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How the Brain Got Language

The Mirror System Hypothesis
Michael A. Arbib
$49.95
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Hardback,  Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199896684ISBN10: 0199896682 Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. In this book, Michael Arbib presents the Mirror System Hypothesis, which suggests how complex imitation supported the breakthrough to pantomime, protosign (communication based on conventionalized manual gestures) and protospeech and then, through cultural evolution, to fully fledged languages.
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A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning

Ray Jackendoff
$29.95
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Hardback,  Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199693207ISBN10: 019969320X One of the world's leading linguists and cognitive scientists offers a paradigm-shattering look at language, consciousness, and thought
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The Mental Corpus

How language is represented in the mind
John R. Taylor
$99.00
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Hardback,  Jun 2012 ISBN13: 9780199290802ISBN10: 0199290806 This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge
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Telicity, Change, and State

A Cross-Categorial View of Event Structure
Violeta Demonte, Louise McNally
$135.00
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Paperback,  Jul 2012 ISBN13: 9780199693504ISBN10: 0199693501 New work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure

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Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3

Further Grammatical Topics
R. M. W. Dixon
$160.00
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Hardback,  Aug 2012 ISBN13: 9780199571093ISBN10: 0199571090 A fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis
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Spoken Discourse and Social Interaction

Alan Firth
$29.95
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Paperback,  Jan 2013 ISBN13: 9780340741849ISBN10: 0340741848 This fascinating text outlines the key concepts, dominant approaches, and major findings in spoken interaction research over the past four decades.
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