• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution

The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution

Paperback

Series: Canto

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0521785715
ISBN13: 9780521785716
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 4 2000
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Human language is a weird communication system: it has more in common with birdsong than with the calls of other primates. Jean Aitchison explores the origins of human language and how it has evolved. She likens the search to a vast prehistoric jigsaw puzzle, in which numerous fragments of evidence must be assembled. Such evidence is pieced together from a mixture of linguistic and nonlinguistic sources such as evolution theory, archaeology, psychology, and anthropology. This is an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the origins and evolution of human language.

Also in

Linguistics