The recruitment theory of language origins

Emergence of Communication and Language

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 129-150

  Steels, Luc ^a,b  

^a SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORY   (France)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-779-4_7     Document Type: Chapter

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