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Routes to Child Language: Evolutionary and Developmental Precursors

Name: Routes to Child Language: Evolutionary and Developmental Precursors
Author: Joanna Blake
ISBN: 9780521033978

by Joanna Blake

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Overview

This book examines the degree to which apes pave the way to human language, focusing on abilities thought to be critical for language, such as signaling, communicative gestures, tool use, object concept, and memory. What apes lack, for example, spontaneous, inventive symbol use and possible auditory memory, is also underlined. A review of data shows how these critical abilities influence child language acquisition. The discussion of the possible origins of language puts it all into an evolutionary perspective, which should appeal to researchers and scholars alike.