Functional and structural pre-adaptations to language: Insight from comparative cognitive science into the study of language origin

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 207-215

  Okanoya, Kazuo ^a,b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Convergence; Language origin; Pre adaptation

Indexed keywords

EID: 5644226289     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5584.2004.00252.x     Document Type: Review

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