Anneliese Kuhle

Tool Intelligence as an Explanation of Cross-Linguistic Variation and Family Resemblance (eBook, ePUB)

An Evolutionary and Typological Investigation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tool Intelligence taps primatological and linguistic field research to draw an analogy between prelinguistic material cultures of nonhuman primates and natural human languages. Linguistics and cognitive science are given new incentives to search for cognitive homology in areas of extended problem awareness and manipulative intentionality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498561228
• Artikelnr.: 56812414

Autorenporträt

Anneliese Kuhle is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for English Language and Literature, Freie Universität Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Languages and Tools 2.Language in the Light of Biological Evolution 3.The
Tool Hypothesis 4.Reciprocity in Language (and Beyond) 5.Structural
Variation 6.Functional Variation 7.Family Resemblances 8.The Relationship
to Biological Concepts of Reciprocity 9.Conclusions 10.Appendix A: Language
Information 11.Appendix B: Language Data Sets 12.Appendix C: References for
Figure Entries