The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives (Approaches to the Evolution of Language)

ISBN 10: 0521736250 / ISBN 13: 9780521736251

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 2010

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• Titre: The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives (Approaches to the Evolution of Language)
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521736250
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521736251
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: good

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Synopsis

The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such standpoints, including language's genetic basis, the anthropological context of its appearance, its formal structure, its relation to systems of cognition and thought, as well as its possible evolutionary antecedents. The book includes Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch's seminal and provocative essay on the subject, 'The Faculty of Language,' and charts the progress of research in this active and highly controversial field since its publication in 2002. This timely volume will be welcomed by researchers and students in a number of disciplines, including linguistics, evolutionary biology, psychology, and cognitive science.

À propos des auteurs

Richard K. Larson is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, New York.

Viviane Depréz is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Hiroko Yamakido is Assistant Professor of Japanese and Linguistics at Lawrence University, Wisconsin.