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Auteur(s) : Fitch, William Tecumseh (1963-....)
Titre(s) : The evolution of language [Texte imprimé] / W. Tecumseh Fitch
Publication : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge university press, 2010
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-610 p.) ; 25 cm
Comprend : The lay of the land. Language from a biological perspective ; Evolution : consensus
and controversy ; Language ; Animal cognition and communication ; Meet the ancestors.
Meet the ancestors ; The LCA : our last common ancestor with chimpanzees ; Hominid
paleontology and archaeology ; The evolution of speech. The evolution of the human
vocal tract ; The evolution of vocal control : the neural basis for spoken language
; Models of the evolution of speech and phonology ; Evaluating phylogenetic models
of language evolution. Historical overview : Western theories of language origin before
Darwin ; Lexical protolanguage ; Signs before speech : gestural protolanguage theories
; Musical protolanguage ; Conclusions and prospects.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [521]-604. Index
"Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication
system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human
child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world,
while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why
not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and not in others?" "Since Darwin's
theory of evolution, questions about the origin of language have generated a rapidly
growing scientific literature, stretched across a number of disciplines, much of it
directed at specialist audiences. The diversity of perspectives - from linguistics,
anthropology, speech science, genetics, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology - can
be bewildering. Covering diverse and fascinating topics, from Kaspar Hauser to Clever
Hans, Tecumseh Fitch provides a clear and comprehensible guide to this vast literature,
bringing together its most important insights to explore one of the biggest unsolved
puzzles of human history."--BOOK JACKET.
Sujet(s) : Langage -- Origines
Linguistique historique
Biolinguistique
Indice(s) Dewey :
417.7 (23e éd.) = Linguistique historique (diachronique)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-521-85993-6. - ISBN 0-521-85993-X. - ISBN 978-0-521-67736-3. - ISBN 0-521-67736-X
(rel.)
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