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.
| ISBN: | 9781316501078 |
| Publication date: | 2nd March 2016 |
| Author: | Rudolf P Botha |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 265 pages |
| Series: | Approaches to the Evolution of Language |
| Genres: |
Language: history and general works |
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.
Language Evolution features in the following genres: Language: history and general works, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Cognition and cognitive psychology
Language Evolution is available in Paperback
Language Evolution was written by Rudolf P Botha and published by Cambridge University Press
Language Evolution has 265 pages
Yes it is part of Approaches to the Evolution of Language series
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