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Language and Species

Language and Species

Bickerton, Derek

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Linguistics

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ISBN10: 0226046117
ISBN13: 9780226046112
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Apr 15 1992
Pages: 305
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.99 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on living linguistic fossils such as ape talk, the two-word stage of small children, and pidgin languages, and on recent discoveries in paleoanthropology, Bickerton shows how a primitive protolanguage could have offered Homo erectus a novel ecological niche. He goes on to demonstrate how this protolanguage could have developed into the languages we speak today.

You are drawn into [Bickerton's] appreciation of the dominant role language plays not only in what we say, but in what we think and, therefore, what we are.--Robert Wright, New York Times Book Review

The evolution of language is a fascinating topic, and Bickerton's Language and Species is the best introduction we have.--John C. Marshall, Nature

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