Becoming Loquens: More Studies in Language Origins - Couverture souple

Möller, Anke; Bichakjian, Bernard H.; Chernigovskaya, Tatiana; Kendon, Adam

 
9783631361719: Becoming Loquens: More Studies in Language Origins

Synopsis

Once declared an unworthy pursuit for learned linguists, the study of language origins has recently become a matter of intensive respectable research. The change is understandable, because, while the nineteenth-century imaginative linguists could only speculate, today's scientists can soberly investigate and present the hard data that could serve to outline the gradual evolution that led to the emergence and development of oral communication. Tracing that process or, rather, contributing to that effort, is the objective of this collection of articles and the collective endeavor of their authors, who from their own specific vantage points – primatology, anthropology, anatomy, cognition, neurology, linguistics, and sociology – are presenting data and analyses that will help the reader to gain better insight and clearer understanding of how humans have developed that fascinating tool of ours – language.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l?auteur

The author : Headed by Merlin Donald, the list of contributors includes seasoned scientists and younger enthusiastic investigators from Europe and North America. They not only present their observational data, discuss their experimental results, and submit their insightful interpretations, but they also display the cultural diversity that exists in the scientific approaches used across nations and continents.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780820447414: Becoming Loquens: More Studies in Language Origins

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0820447412 ISBN 13 :  9780820447414
Editeur : Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2000
Couverture souple