April Mcmahon, Robert Mcmahon

Evolutionary Linguistics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? This is an introduction to the interdisciplinary debates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 752g
• ISBN-13: 9780521814508
• ISBN-10: 0521814502
• Artikelnr.: 37438503

Autorenporträt

April McMahon is Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Evolution and history
2. Evidence for evolution
3. The comparative methods
4. Who, where and when?
5. The vocal tract
6. Language and the brain
7. Language and genes
8. Big bang or cumulative creep? Saltation versus gradual, adaptive evolution
9. From protolanguage to language.

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1. Evolution and history; 2. Evidence for evolution; 3. The comparative methods; 4. Who, where and when?; 5. The vocal tract; 6. Language and the brain; 7. Language and genes; 8. Big bang or cumulative creep? Saltation versus gradual, adaptive evolution; 9. From protolanguage to language.

Rezensionen

'Ideal material for my postgraduate course in evolutionary linguistics.' Andrew Smith, University of Stirling