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14 produkter
Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax
Av Derek Bickerton, Eors Szathmary
Häftad, 2023
791 kr
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Language and Human Behavior
Häftad, 1996
503 kr
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"What this book proposes to do," writes Derek Bickerton, "is to stand the conventional wisdom of the behavioral sciences on its head: instead of the human species growing clever enough to invent language, it will view that species as blundering into language and, as a direct result of that, …
Dynamics of a Creole System
Häftad, 2009
574 kr
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In this volume the author describes and systematically accounts for language variation in a Creole-speaking community and assesses the implications the study has on generally accepted notions of the nature of language. Based on an extensive study of Guyana, South America, the volume analyses the …
More than Nature Needs
Language, Mind, and Evolution
Inbunden, 2014
406 kr
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The human mind is an unlikely evolutionary adaptation. How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than anything a hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, saw humans as "divine exceptions" to natural …
Adam's Tongue
How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
Häftad, 2010
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266 kr
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How language evolved has been called 'the hardest problem in science'. In "ADAM'S TONGUE", Derek Bickerton - long a leading authority in this field - shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, …
Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages
Häftad, 2009
266 kr
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Language and Species
Häftad, 1992
304 kr
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Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on "living linguistic fossils" such as "ape talk," the "two-word" stage of small children, and pidgin languages, and on recent discoveries in paleoanthropology, Bickerton shows …
Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax
Av Derek Bickerton, Eörs Szathmáry
Inbunden, 2009
465 kr
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Murders of Boysie Singh
Häftad, 2020
179 kr
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The Murders of Boysie Singh , first published in 1962, is a classic for several reasons. It tells the true but almost unbelievable story of a Trinidadian gang leader Boysie Singh. For more than a decade he and his ruthless henchmen terrorised Port of Spain and the seas around it, controlled …
