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Bejarano, Teresa.

Becoming human from pointing gestures to syntax / [electronic resource] : Teresa Bejarano. - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011. - xvii, 402 p. - Advances in consciousness research, v. 81 1381-589X ; . - Advances in consciousness research ; v. 81. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

section 1. Evolutionary precursors -- section 2. The basic human ability -- section 3. Specifiying some necessary requisites of language -- section 4. The origin of prediction and syntax -- section 5. Pregrammatical, theme-rheme syntax : revisiting Frege and Vygotsky -- section 6. From original to present-day prediction : links and grammatical syntax -- section 7. Syntax beyond predication.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Language acquisition.
Gesture.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
Psycholinguistics.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: P118 / .B45 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 153