Language Evolution: The Windows Approach (Approaches to the Evolution of Language) - Tapa blanda

Botha, Rudolf

 
9781316501078: Language Evolution: The Windows Approach (Approaches to the Evolution of Language)
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ISBN 10: 1316501078 ISBN 13: 9781316501078
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Sinopsis

How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it? Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in his fascinating new book. Inferences can be drawn about language evolution from a range of other phenomena, serving as windows into this prehistoric process. These include shell-beads, fossil skulls and ancestral brains, modern pidgin and creole languages, homesign systems and emergent sign languages, modern motherese, language use of modern hunter-gatherers, first language acquisition, similarities between language and music, and comparative animal behaviour. The first systematic analysis of the Windows Approach, it will be of interest to students and researchers in many disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, palaeontology and primatology, as well as anyone interested in how language evolved.

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Rudolf Botha is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and Honorary Professor of Linguistics at Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1316501078
ISBN 13 
9781316501078
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Número de páginas
328
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