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Language Evolution
Morten H. Christiansen and Simon Kirby, Eds.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003. 413 pp. $98, £60. ISBN 0-19-924483-9. Paper, $26.95, £17.95. ISBN 0-19-924484-7. Studies in the Evolution of Language.
Contributors offer a variety of perspectives--from fields such as anthropology, archaeology, cognitive science, linguistics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and psychology--on the origins, evolution, and uniqueness of human language.
The reviewer is in the Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand. E-mail: andrew.carstairs-mccarthy{at}canterbury.ac.nz
