TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cloud,Daniel
TI  - The domestication of language : cultural evolution and the uniqueness of the human animal 
SN  - 9780231167925 (cloth : acidfree paper)
U1  - 417/ 
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Origin
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Phonology
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Historical linguistics
KW  - Anthropological linguistics
N1  - Where do words come from? -- The conventions of a human language -- The evolution of signals -- Varieties of biological information -- The strange case of the chimpanzee -- The problem of maladaptive culture -- The cumulative consequences of a didactic adaptation -- Meaning, interpretation, and language acquisition -- What's accomplished in conversation -- Recapitulation and moral
ER  -