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    <dateIssued>c1995</dateIssued>
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  <tableOfContents>Chimps, children, and creoles : the need for caution / Jean Aichison -- Some problems with an evolutionary view of written language / David Barton -- Essentialism in language / Bernard H. Bichakjian -- The invention of the syllable : reflections of a humanist on the biology of language / Robert Payson Creed -- Genetic classification and the historical method / Angela Della Volpe -- Animal communication and human language : searching for their evolutionary relationship / G�abor Gy�ori -- From proto-language to grammar / Martin Hildebrand-Nilshon -- The biological imperatives in communicative interaction / Mary Ritchie Key -- Ritual/representation as the semiogenetic precursor of hominid symbol use / Jo Liska -- Language acquisition and the essentialist-evolutionist debate / David J. Messer -- Group selection in the biocultural evolution of language : fate of the Neandertals revisited / Richard G. Milo and Duane Quiatt -- The biology of language / Harvey B. Sarles -- A possibility of quantum evolution of language / W�odzimierz Sedlak -- Biological and cultural factors in the evolution of language / David Smillie.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Stanis�aw Puppel.</note>
  <note>"Papers presented and discussed at an international symposium held in December of 1988 at Czerniejewo, near Pozna�n, Poland"--Pref.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and indexes.</note>
  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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    <topic>Biolinguistics</topic>
    <topic>Congresses</topic>
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    <topic>Origin</topic>
    <topic>Congresses</topic>
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    <topic>Congresses</topic>
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    <topic>Congresses</topic>
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