The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 9027229600 ISBN 13 : 9789027229601

Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2002

Synopsis

The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The contributors to this volume are linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, primatologists, and anthropologists who share the assumption that language, just as mind and brain, are products of biological evolution. The rise of human language is not viewed as a serendipitous mutation that gave birth to a unique linguistic organ, but as a gradual, adaptive extension of pre-existing mental capacities and brain structures. The contributors carefully study brain mechanisms, diachronic change, language acquisition, and the parallels between cognitive and linguistic structures to weave a web of hypotheses and suggestive empirical findings on the origins of language and the connections of language to other human capacities. The chapters discuss brain pathways that support linguistic processing; origins of specific linguistic features in temporal and hierarchical structures of the mind; the possible co-evolution of language and the reasoning about mental states; and the aspects of language learning that may serve as models of evolutionary change.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9027229600
• ISBN 13: 9789027229601
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 404
• Éditeur: Givón T., Malle Bertram F.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible