Language: the perspective from organismal biology

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 505-510

  Margoliash, Daniel ^a,b,c   Nusbaum, Howard C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; NEUROETHOLOGY; RESEARCH PROGRAMS;

CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGES; LINGUISTICS; SYNTACTICS;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; ETHOLOGY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

EID: 70449650488     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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