Evolutionary Linguistics

Informationen zum Autor April McMahon is Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University. Robert McMahon is a Research Associate in the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University. Klappentext How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? This is an introduction to the interdisciplinary debates. Zusammenfassung How did the biological! brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? When! why and where did our ancestors become linguistic animals! and what has happened since? This book provides a clear! comprehensive but lively introduction to these interdisciplinary debates. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: April McMahon, April (Aberystwyth University) Mcmahon Mcmahon, April Mcmahon Mcmahon, Robert Mcmahon, McMahon April, McMahon Robert
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.10.2012
• EAN: 9780521814508
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81450-8
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics; Cambridge Textbooks in Linguis; Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Linguistics, Evolution, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Historical & comparative linguistics