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 lateste work in linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and computer
science, and deploys the latest methods and theories toe probe into the origins and subsequent development of thee only species that has languages.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199279047
• ISBN13: 9780199279043
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"