Origin of Speech

Zusatztext erudite and readable... MacNeilage goes out of his way to engage the reader with wonderfully interesting facts Informationen zum Autor Peter MacNeilage is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written over 120 papers on the topic of complex action systems and their evolution. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Acoustical Society of America, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Klappentext This important and original account of the origin and evolution of speech integrates the latest research in speech, acquisition, and neurobiology, and includes the key observation that infants learning language reveal similar constraints to those acting on our distant ancestors. It is written in a clear style with minimal recourse to jargon. Zusammenfassung This important and original account of the origin and evolution of speech integrates the latest research in speech, acquisition, and neurobiology, and includes the key observation that infants learning language reveal similar constraints to those acting on our distant ancestors. It is written in a clear style with minimal recourse to jargon.

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• Authors: Peter Macneilage, Peter (University of Texas at Austin) MacNeilage, Peter F. MacNeilage, MacNeilage Peter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2010
• EAN: 9780199581580
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958158-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Studies in the Evolution of Language; Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language; Check Info and Delete This Occ; Studies in the Evolution of Language; Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language; Check Info and Delete This Occ; Oxford Studies in the Evolutio
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Biology, life sciences, Phonetics, phonology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Historical and comparative linguistics