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Language : the cultural tool / Daniel L. Everett

by Daniel Leonard Everett

This study proposes that language is a culturally developed tool rather than an innate biological trait. Drawing on linguistic research from Amazonian communities, it examines how social experience and environment shape the diverse structures of human communication.

Accession 11907 ISBN 9780307378538 Publisher Pantheon
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