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The Origins of Vowel Systems
Av Bart de Boer
Inbunden, 2001
628 kr
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This book addresses the question of how the properties of human vowel systems can be explained. Though it is found that vowel systems of human languages are optimal for communicative purposes, it is not clear who is doing the optimization. If children learn a language, they learn to produce sounds …
The Origins of Vowel Systems
Av Bart de Boer
Häftad, 2001
733 kr
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This book addresses the question of how the properties of human vowel systems can be explained. Though it is found that vowel systems of human languages are optimal for communicative purposes, it is not clear who is doing the optimization. If children learn a language, they learn to produce sounds …
The Evolution of Morphology
Häftad, 2010
1023 kr
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This book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the more general contexts of human evolution and the origins of language. The consensus in many fields is that language is well designed for its purpose, and became so either through natural selection or by virtue of …
The Origins of Meaning
Language in the Light of Evolution
Inbunden, 2007
1123 kr
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In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at how the world first came to have a meaning in the minds of animals and how in humans this meaning eventually came to be expressed as language. He reviews a mass of …
The Genesis of Grammar
A Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2007
3910 kr
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This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind.Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether proven or hypothesized," wrote Talmy Givón in …
The Genesis of Grammar
A Reconstruction
Häftad, 2007
891 kr
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This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind.Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether proven or hypothesized," wrote Talmy Givón in …
Language Evolution
Av Morten H. Christiansen, Simon Kirby
Inbunden, 2003
4873 kr
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What is it that makes us human?This is one of the most challenging and important questions we face. Our species' defining characteristic is language - we appear to be unique in the natural world in having such an incredibly open-ended system for putting thoughts into words. If we are to truly …
Language Evolution
Av Morten H. Christiansen, Simon Kirby
Häftad, 2003
1060 kr
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How humans acquired language and how languages evolved are two of the most intriguing questions in contemporary scientific research. Answering them would throw new light on the process of evolution, the human brain, the structure of language, and what it means to be human. In this book researchers …
The Transition to Language
Av Alison Wray
Inbunden, 2002
936 kr
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Linguists, biological anthropologists, and cognitive scientists come together in this book to explore the origins and early evolution of phonology, syntax, and semantics. They consider the nature of pre- and proto-linguistic communication, the internal and external triggers that led to its …
23: The Transition to Language
Av Alison Wray
Häftad, 2002
763 kr
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The evolutionary emergence of each facet of human language can be viewed as a 'transition'. This book explores how different transitions took place, their preconditions, and their consequences. Among the questions it addresses are: what physiological and psychological differences between us and …
Why We Talk
The Evolutionary Origins of Language
Inbunden, 2007
1376 kr
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Jean-Louis Dessalles explores the co-evolutionary paths of biology, culture, and the great human edifice of language, linking the evolution of the language to the general evolutionary history of humankind. He provides searchingly original answers to such fundamental paradoxes as to whether we …
Language Origins
Perspectives on Evolution
Inbunden, 2005
3956 kr
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This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how and why it evolved; how it came to be culturally transmitted; and how languages diversified. It does so from the perspective of the latest work in linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and computer science, …
Language Origins
Perspectives on Evolution
Häftad, 2005
612 kr
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This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how it relates to primate communication; how and why it evolved; how it came to be culturally transmitted; and how languages diversified. The chapters are written from the perspective of the latest work in …
Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech
Häftad, 2006
808 kr
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Speech is the principal supporting medium of language. In this book Pierre-Yves Oudeyer considers how spoken language first emerged. He presents an original and integrated view of the interactions between self-organization and natural selection, reformulates questions about the origins of speech, …
The Evolution of Morphology
Inbunden, 2010
1896 kr
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This book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the more general contexts of human evolution and the origins of language. The consensus in many fields is that language is well designed for its purpose, and became so either through natural selection or by virtue of …
Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable
Av SAMPSON ET AL, Geoffrey Sampson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1005 kr
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This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a hundred years or more the universal equality of languages has been a tenet of faith among most anthropologists and linguists. It has been frequently …
Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable
Av Geoffrey Sampson, David Gil m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
805 kr
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This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a hundred years or more the universal equality of languages has been a tenet of faith among most anthropologists and linguists. It has been frequently …
The Cradle of Language
Inbunden, 2009
2776 kr
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This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Scholars from around the world address the fossil, genetic, and archaeological evidence and critically examine …
The Cradle of Language
Häftad, 2009
786 kr
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This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Scholars from around the world address the fossil, genetic, and archaeological evidence and critically examine …
The Prehistory of Language
Inbunden, 2009
3223 kr
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'When, why, and how did language evolve?' 'Why do only humans have language?' This book looks at these and other questions about the origins and evolution of language. It does so via a rich diversity of perspectives, including social, cultural, archaeological, palaeoanthropological, musicological, …
The Prehistory of Language
Häftad, 2009
763 kr
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'When, why, and how did language evolve?' 'Why do only humans have language?' This book looks at these and other questions about the origins and evolution of language. It does so via a rich diversity of perspectives, including social, cultural, archaeological, palaeoanthropological, musicological, …
Why We Talk
The Evolutionary Origins of Language
Häftad, 2009
759 kr
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Jean-Louis Dessalles explores the co-evolutionary paths of biology, culture, and the great human edifice of language, linking the evolution of the language to the general evolutionary history of humankind. He provides searchingly original answers to such fundamental paradoxes as to whether we …
