n April 12 in San Francisco, a standing-room-only crowd of nearly 400 people attended the third biennial Wattis Foundation Symposium in Anthropology, sponsored by the California Academy of Sciences and organized by Nina Jablonski. This year's theme (Origin and Diversification of Language) brought ei
Imitation and memory in language origins
✍ Scribed by Francisco Aboitiz; Ricardo García; Enzo Brunetti; Conrado Bosman
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 56 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0893-6080
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