Cognitive neuroscience of natural language use
"When we think of everyday language use, the first things that come to mind include colloquial conversations, reading and writing e-mails, sending text messages or reading a book. But can we study the brain basis of language as we use it in our daily lives? As a topic of study, …
This book proposes a new two-step approach to the evolution of language, whereby syntax first evolved as an auto-organizational process for the human conceptual apparatus (as a Language of Thought), and this Language of Thought was then externalized for communication, due to soc…
Quelles sont les causes d'une langue telle qu'elle est? Certaines caractéristiques sont universelles, certaines sont héritées, d'autres sont empruntées et d'autres sont innovées en interne. Mais peu importe d'où vient un peu de langage, il n'existera que s'il a été diffusé et ma…
"La 4e de couverture indique : For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as 'hunters and gatherers', and for most of this time, as talking individuals. No direct evidence for the origin and evolution of language exists; we do not even know if early humans had languag…
"This book discusses the scope and development of the science of language evolution - a newly emergent field that investigates the origin of language. The book is addressed to audiences who are not professionally involved in science and presents the problems of language origins …
This book discusses the scope and development of the science of language evolution? a newly emergent field that investigates the origin of language. The book is addressed to audiences who are not professionally involved in science and presents the problems of language origins to…
"This book discusses the scope and development of the science of language evolution - a newly emergent field that investigates the origin of language. The book is addressed to audiences who are not professionally involved in science and presents the problems of language origins …
The Cambridge handbook of biolinguistics
Evolutionary linguistics
by McMahon, April M. S., McMahon, Robert
fromCambridge textbooks in linguistics
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 d…
La quatrième de couverture indique: "In this work, originally published in Dutch, Rik Smits theorizes that language could not have developed originally as a system of communication. It is, instead, the result of combining separate abilities, each of which developed independently…
The emergence of symbolic culture, classically identified with the European cave paintings of the Ice Age, is now seen, in the light of recent groundbreaking discoveries, as a complex nonlinear process taking root in a remote past and in different regions of the planet. In this …