Constraining the arbirariness of exaptationist accounts of the evolution of language

Lingua

Volumn 121, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1552-1563

  Botha, Rudolf ^a,b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emergence; Evolutionary linguistics; Exaptation; Language evolution; Merge

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959713910     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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