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Apes, Wolves, Birds, and Humans: Toward a Comparative Foundation for a Functional Theory of Language Evolution

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Hill, Jane H. – Sign Language Studies, 1977

This article reviews the possibilities that a comparative, functionally oriented view of communication evolution offers to a linguist interested in the evolution of human languages and suggests a wide variety of areas which might be further investigated with profit. (CFM)

Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Anthropological Linguistics, Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer)

Natural Information Processing Rules: Formal Theory and Applications to Ethnography. Monographs of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 3.

Geoghegan, William H. – 1973

This monograph represents the results of an attempt to construct at least one portion of a theoretical framework for describing and analyzing the performance routines used by the native actor to realize his competence to make culturally appropriate decisions. In general the concern is to describe in theoretical terms the structure and operation of…

Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Anthropology, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes