Language & species /
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| Author / Creator: | Bickerton, Derek, author. |
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| Edition: | Paperback edition |
| Imprint: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1992. |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11781169 |
| Summary: | <p> The classic work on the origins and evolution of language from the pioneering linguist and author of Adam's Tongue. </p> 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--as well as important 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.<br> <br> "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 <br> <br> "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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 022622094X 9780226220949 0226046109 9780226046105 0226046117 9780226046112 |