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Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable
S
tudies in the
E
volution of
L
anguage
General Editors
Kathleen R. Gibson,
University of Texas at Houston
,
and James R. Hurford,
University of Edinburgh
P
ublished
1
The Orgins of Vowel Systems
Bart de Boer
2
The Transition to Language
Edited by Alison Wray
3
Language Evolution
Edited by Morten H. Christiansen and Simon Kirby
4
Language Origins
Evolutionary Perspectives
Edited by Maggie Tallerman
5
The Talking Ape
How Language Evolved
Robbins Burling
6
The Emergence of Speech
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
translated by James R. Hurford
7
Why we Talk
The Evolutionary Origins of Human Communication
Jean-Louis Dessalles
translated by James Grieve
8
The Origins of Meaning
Language in the Light of Evolution
1
James R. Hurford
9
The Genesis of Grammar
Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva
10
The Origin of Speech
Peter F. MacNeilage
11
The Prehistory of Language
Edited by Rudolf Botha and Chris Knight
12
The Cradle of Language
Edited by Rudolf Botha and Chris Knight
13
Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable
Edited by Geoffrey Sampson, David Gil, and Peter Trudgill
[For a list of books in preparation for the series, see p
310
]
Language Complexity
as an Evolving Variable
Edited by
GEOFFREY SAMPSON, DAVID GIL,
AND PETER TRUDGILL
1
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