Distributed language: Biomechanics, functions, and the origins of talk

Emergence of Communication and Language

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 105-127

  Cowley, Stephen J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-779-4_6     Document Type: Chapter

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