The Nature and Origin of Language
(Part of the Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language Series)
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This book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language then evolved. Its four parts are concerned with different views on the emergence of language, with what language is, how it evolved in the human brain, and finally how this process led to the properties of language. Part I considers the main approaches to the subject and how far language evolved culturally or genetically. Part II argues that language is a system...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0199681635
ISBN13:9780199681631
Release Date:November 2013
Publisher:Oxford University Press (UK)
Length:402 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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