The Origin of Speech

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 Behavioural 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 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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Macneilage, Peter F. MacNeilage
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2008
• EAN: 9780199236503
• ISBN: 978-0-19-923650-3
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Studies in the Evolution of Language; Oxford Studies in the Evolutio
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies