Idioms: structural and psychological perspectives
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Language evolution
by Kirby, Simon, Christiansen, Morten H.
fromStudies in the evolution of language
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A collection of writings by leading scholars in the field of language evolution, giving readable accounts of their theories on the origins of language and reflecting on the most current issues and debates.
In the sixth edition of this classic text, Smith's purpose remains the same: to shed light on fundamental aspects of the complex human act of reading - linguistic, physiological, psychological and social - and on what is involved in learning to read.
Altmann describes - in terms accessible to the non-specialist reader - the ways in which the mind produces and understands language, and the state-of-the-art of our understanding of the mental processes which underlie our use of language.
