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How the brain got language : the mirror system hypothesis
- Title
- How the brain got language : the mirror system hypothesis / Michael A. Arbib.
- Author
- Arbib, Michael A.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012], ©2012.
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- Description
- xvii, 413 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Oxford studies in the evolution of language ; 16
- Uniform Title
- Studies in the evolution of language ; 16.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Setting the stage. Underneath the lampposts ; Perspectives on human languages ; Vocalization and gesture in monkey and ape ; Human brain, monkey brain and praxis ; Mirror neurons & mirror systems -- pt. 2. Developing the hypothesis. Signposts : the argument of the book revealed ; Simple & complex imitation ; Via pantomime to protosign ; Protosign and protospeech. An expanding spiral ; How languages got started ; How the child acquires language ; How languages emerge ; How languages keep changing.
- ISBN
- 9780199896684 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
- 0199896682 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2011047813
- 40020989506
- OCLC
- 767825008
- ocn767825008
- SCSB-5641534
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries