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Dynamics of a creole system
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ISBN: 052120514X 9780521205146 Year: 1975 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press


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Language and human behaviour
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ISBN: 1857285417 Year: 1996 Publisher: London UCL Press

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Roots of language
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ISBN: 9783946234081 9783946234098 9783946234104 9781523647156 3946234089 3946234100 3946234097 Year: 2015 Publisher: Language Science Press

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Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann Arbor). It was the first work to systematically develop a theory first suggested by Coelho in the late nineteenth century: that the creation of creole languages somehow reflected universal properties of language. The book also proposed that the same set of properties would be found to emerge in normal first-language acquisition and must have emerged in the original evolution of language. These proposals, some of which were elaborated in an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1984), were immediately controversial and gave rise to a great deal of subsequent research in creoles, much of it aimed at rebutting the theory. The book also served to legitimize and stimulate research in language evolution, a topic regarded as off-limits by linguists for over a century. The present edition contains a foreword by the author bringing the theory up to date; a fuller exposition of many of its aspects can be found in the author’s most recent work, More than nature needs (Harvard University Press, 2014).


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More than nature needs : language, mind, and evolution
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ISBN: 067472853X 0674728521 9780674728523 9780674724907 0674724909 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than any hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, set humans outside normal evolution. Darwin thought use of language might have shaped our sophisticated brains, but this remained an intriguing guess--until now. Combining state-of-the-art research with forty years of writing and thinking about language origins, Derek Bickerton convincingly resolves a crucial problem that biology and the cognitive sciences have systematically avoided. Before language or advanced cognition could be born, humans had to escape the prison of the here and now in which animal thinking and communication were both trapped. Then the brain's self-organization, triggered by words, assembled mechanisms that could link not only words but the concepts those words symbolized--a process that had to be under conscious control. Those mechanisms could be used equally for thinking and for talking, but the skeletal structures they produced were suboptimal for the hearer and had to be elaborated. Starting from humankind's remotest past, More than Nature Needs transcends nativist thesis and empiricist antithesis by presenting a revolutionary synthesis that shows specifically and in a principled way how and why the synthesis came about.

Adam's tongue : how humans made language, how language made humans
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ISBN: 9780809016471 0809016478 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Hill and Wang

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Shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problen have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom.

Language and species
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ISBN: 0226046117 9780226046112 Year: 1992 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.): University of Chicago press,

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Language and human behavior
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ISBN: 0295974575 Year: 1996 Publisher: Seattle (Wash.) : University of Washington press,

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ISBN: 0295974583 Year: 1996 Publisher: Seattle University of Washington press

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