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It ain't what you do (it's the way that you do it)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2013

Kenneth John Aitken
Kenneth John Aitken*
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Psychology Department, Hillside School, Aberdour, Fife KY3 0RH, Scotland. drken.aitken@btinternet.com
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Abstract

Knowledge of the complexity of human communication comes from three main sources – (i) studies of the linguistics and neuropsychology of dysfunction after brain injury; (ii) studies of the development of social communication in infancy, and its dysfunction in developmental psychopathologies; and (iii) the evolutionary history of human communicative interaction. Together, these suggest the need for a broad, integrated theory of communication of which language forms a small but critical component.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , August 2013 , pp. 347 - 348
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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