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... language competence is a distinctive component of human nature . Now the moment has come to be more precise about the characteristics and consequences of being able to speak like a ... LANGUAGE HUMAN NATURE The Uniqueness of Human Language.
... language competence is a distinctive component of human nature . Now the moment has come to be more precise about the characteristics and consequences of being able to speak like a ... LANGUAGE HUMAN NATURE The Uniqueness of Human Language.
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... language communities ( cf. Hymes 1971 ) . At the center of this controversy is the comparison made by the anthropological linguist Benjamin Whorf between American Indian languages and the Indo - European family of languages , to which ...
... language communities ( cf. Hymes 1971 ) . At the center of this controversy is the comparison made by the anthropological linguist Benjamin Whorf between American Indian languages and the Indo - European family of languages , to which ...
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... language is dis- persed or broken into smaller groups , the accumulation of sound changes results in the appearance of dialects . As the changes con- tinue , languages emerge that differ not only from their ancestral forms but from each ...
... language is dis- persed or broken into smaller groups , the accumulation of sound changes results in the appearance of dialects . As the changes con- tinue , languages emerge that differ not only from their ancestral forms but from each ...
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Biological Evolution | 7 |
FIGURES 11 Anthropologists at Work 289 | 8 |
Population Genetics | 13 |
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