SEEDS OF SPEECH
Language Origin and Evolution
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Humanlanguageisaweirdcommunicationsystem:ithasmoreincommonwithbirdsongthanwiththecallsofotherprimates.Inthiswide-rangingandaccessibleoverview,JeanAitchisonexplorestheoriginsofhumanlanguageandhowithasevolved.Shelikensthesearchtoavastpre-historicjigsawpuzzle,inwhichnumerousfragmentsofevidencemustbeassembled.Suchevidenceispiecedtogetherfromamixtureoflinguisticandnon-linguisticsourceslikeevolutiontheory,archaeology,psychology,andanthropology.Sheexplainswhylanguageissostrange,outlinesrecenttheoriesaboutitsorigin,anddiscussespossiblepathsofevolution.Finally,JeanAitchisonconsiderswhatholdsalllanguagestogetherandpreventsthemfrombecomingunlearnablydifferentfromoneanother.TheSeedsofSpeechisfascinatingandwillappealtoeveryonewhoisinterestedintheoriginsandevolutionofhumanlanguage,includinglinguists,anthropologists,psychologists,archaeologists,andthegeneralreader.
Details:
- Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
- Series: Canto Book
- Editions: Reprint
- Academic Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
- Depth (m): 0.019
- Dewey: 428
- Height (m): 0.21
- Place Of Publication: Great Britain/British Isles
- Published Date: Mon 8 May 2000
- Weight (g): 363
- Width (m): 0.133
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