The Dawn of Language
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",A model of popular-science writing", STEVEN POOLEWho was ",the
first speaker", and what was their first message?An erudite,
tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanity's
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? Johansson's far-reaching,
authoritative and research-based 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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Quercus Publishing ,
Sverker Johansson
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Quercus Publishing,
Sverker Johansson
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Slovart
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