The Dawn Of Language: The Story Of How We Came To Talk

The Dawn Of Language: The Story Of How We Came To Talk

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A Model Of PopularScience Writing Steven Poolewho Was The First Speaker And What Was Their First Message?An Erudite, Tightly Woven And Beautifully Written Account Of One Of HumanityS Greatest Mysteries The Origins Of Language.Drawing On Evidence From Many Fields, Including Archaeology, Anthropology, Neurology And Linguistics, Sverker Johansson Weaves These Disparate Threads Together To Show How Our Human Ancestors Evolved Into Language Users. The Dawn Of Language Provides A Fascinating Survey Of How Grammar Came Into Being And The Differences Or Similarities Between Languages Spoken Around The World, Before Exploring How Language Eventually Emerged In The Very Remote Human Past.Our Intellectual And Physiological Changes Through The Process Of Evolution Both Have A Bearing On Our Ability To Acquire Language. But To What Extent Is The Evolution Of Language Dependent On Genes, Or On Environment? How Has Language Evolved Further, And How Is It Changing Now, In The Process Of Globalisation? And Which Aspects Of Language Ensure That Robots Are Not Yet Intelligent Enough To Reconstruct How Language Has Evolved?JohanssonS FarReaching, Authoritative And ResearchBased Approach To Language Is Brought To Life Through Dozens Of Astonishing Examples, Both Human And Animal, In A Fascinatingly Erudite And Entertaining Volume For Anyone Who Has Ever Contemplated Not Just Why We Speak The Way We Do, But Why We Speak At All.Translated From The Swedish By Frank Perry

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