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Becoming human [electronic resource] : from pointing gestures to syntax /

by Bejarano, Teresa; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Advances in consciousness research: v. 81.Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011Description: xvii, 402 p.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): Language acquisition | Gesture | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax | Psycholinguistics | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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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