Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution

Book Overview

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, and deploys the latest methods and theories to probe into the origins and subsequent development of the only species that has languages.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199279039
• ISBN13: 9780199279036
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"