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The Evolution of Language

By Fitch, W. Tecumseh

The Evolution of Language book

The Evolution of Language

By Fitch, W. Tecumseh

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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, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and not in others? Since Darwin's theory of evolution, questions about the origin of language have generated a rapidly-growing scientific literature, stretched across a number of disciplines, much of it directed at specialist audiences. The diversity of perspectives - from linguistics, anthropology, speech science, genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology - can be bewildering. Tecumseh Fitch cuts through this vast literature, bringing together its most important insights to explore one of the biggest unsolved puzzles of human history.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
624
Release Date:
2010-04-01
Publication Date:
2010-01-04
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
052167736X
ISBN13:
9780521677363
Weight:
1060 g
Height:
170 cm
Width:
244 cm
Thickness:
34 cm
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