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https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/10889| Title: | Review of Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew 'The origins of complex language': Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. vi + 260 | Contributor(s): | Noble, William Glass (author) | Publication Date: | 2002 | DOI: | 10.1080/724051020 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/10889 | Abstract: | There are three features of contemporary languages that stand in need of explanation because, the author claims, they are not inevitable. These features are: large vocabulary, duality of patterning (the analysability of utterance into morphemes and phonemes), and the distinctness between the noun phrase and the sentence. | Publication Type: | Review | Source of Publication: | Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 80(2), p. 249-250 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1471-6828 0004-8402 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160103 Linguistic Anthropology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture 950599 Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified |
HERDC Category Description: | D3 Review of Single Work |
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