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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics, 1.4 Conclusions: Older vs Current Approaches to the Evolution of Language. Instead, the way The … and There was a problem loading your book clubs. Book summary views reflect the number of visits to the book and chapter landing pages. and
He has also written a book on dialects and Black English, The Word on the Street. Welcome back. 1
Drawing on major theories of language formation, macroecology and population genetics, Mufwene proposes a common approach to the development of creoles and other new languages. This fairly dense book discusses theories on the physical evolution of language in humans.
Find all the books, read about the author, and more. 2003. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. --Robert Seyfarth, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania. The author states a clear purpose to avoid offering a particular theory but to instead show how the field is a very broad endeavor that needs to respect what many researchers are doing and that needs to value a wealth of testable hypotheses. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
5 How, and why, did language evolve in our species and not in others? We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Find out more about sending content to . Can You Truly Focus When Current Events Distract You? Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.
The diversity of perspectives - from linguistics, anthropology, speech science, genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology - can be bewildering. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Full text views reflects the number of PDF downloads, PDFs sent to Google Drive, Dropbox and Kindle and HTML full text views for chapters in this book.
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Why not? These items are shipped from and sold by different sellers. The book surveys a wide range of examples of changes in the structure, function and vitality of languages, and suggests that similar ecologies have played the same kinds of roles in all cases of language evolution. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. His books on creoles include Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles, The Missing Spanish Creoles, and an anthology of his creole articles called Defining Creole. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive survey of the computational models and methodologies used for studying the evolution and origin of language and communication. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Bragg writes this linguistic tale in a lively manner that is accessible to many. and Leider wurde das Buch, welches doch einen stolzen Preis hat, mit anderen Bestellungen versendet. Fitch guides us through this tangled and often treacherous domain with clarity, equanimity, and encyclopedic reach. 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. Beautifully written and well researched. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive survey of the computational models and methodologies used for studying the evolution and origin of language and communication.
The Evolution of Language is more on the "textbook" end of the spectrum rather than a pop science book. Neither do the soft organs that produce it. Some dictionaries have up to 600,000 words, although most native English speakers have a vocabulary of up to only 60,000 words. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. To send content items to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org 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. McWhorter is a professor at Columbia University, political commentator, and linguist. Refresh and try again. of your Kindle email address below. Nagle, Stephen J. Psycholinguistics; It is not another book on the evolution of language. Dabei habe ich bewusst kein gebrauchtes sondern ein neues Exemplar gekauft. Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches". on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account.
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