Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 272-279

  Jackendoff, Ray ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GESTURE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0033167960     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(99)01333-9     Document Type: Review

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