Approaches to the Evolution of Language – serie
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Language in Prehistory
Av Alan Barnard
Häftad, 2016
458 kr
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For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as 'hunters and gatherers', and for most of this time, as talking individuals. No direct evidence for the origin and evolution of language exists; we do not even know if early humans had language, either spoken or signed. Taking an …
The Evolution of Language
Häftad, 2010
921 kr
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Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, …
The Evolution of Human Language
Biolinguistic Perspectives
Av Richard K. Larson, Viviane Déprez m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1761 kr
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The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such standpoints, including language's genetic basis, the …
The Evolution of Human Language
Biolinguistic Perspectives
Av Richard K. Larson, Viviane Déprez m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
720 kr
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The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such standpoints, including language's genetic basis, the …
The Evolution of Language
Inbunden, 2010
1912 kr
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Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, …
Language Evolution and Syntactic Theory
Inbunden, 2009
1844 kr
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Evolution has not typically been recognised by linguists as a constraining factor when developing linguistic theories. This book demonstrates that our theories of language must reflect the fact that language has evolved. It critiques a currently dominant framework in the field of linguistics - the …
How Language Began
Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution
Inbunden, 2012
1341 kr
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Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human …
Language in Prehistory
Av Alan Barnard
Inbunden, 2016
1832 kr
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For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as 'hunters and gatherers', and for most of this time, as talking individuals. No direct evidence for the origin and evolution of language exists; we do not even know if early humans had language, either spoken or signed. Taking an …
Language Evolution
The Windows Approach
Av Rudolf Botha
Inbunden, 2016
1333 kr
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How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it? Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in his fascinating new book. Inferences can be drawn about language evolution from a range of other phenomena, serving as windows into this prehistoric …
How Language Began
Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution
Häftad, 2012
434 kr
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Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human …
Language Evolution
The Windows Approach
Av Rudolf Botha
Häftad, 2016
502 kr
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How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it? Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in his fascinating new book. Inferences can be drawn about language evolution from a range of other phenomena, serving as windows into this prehistoric …
