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Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 357
Utgivningsdatum: 2005-02-17
Förlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9789027294609

Origins of Language E-bok

Name: Origins of Language
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Author: Johansson Sverker Johansson
ISBN: 9789027294609

Constraints on hypotheses

av Johansson Sverker Johansson

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Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the student or researcher who prefers solid data and well-supported conclusions, over speculative scenarios. Much that has been written on the origins of language is characterized by hypothesizing largely unconstrained by evidence. But empirical data do exist, and the purpose of this book is to integrate and review the available evidence from all relevant disciplines, not only linguistics but also, e.g., neurology, primatology, paleoanthropology, and evolutionary biology. The evidence is then used to constrain the multitude of scenarios for language origins, demonstrating that many popular hypotheses are untenable. Among the issues covered: (1) Human evolutionary history, (2) Anatomical prerequisites for language, (3) Animal communication and ape "language", (4) Mind and language, (5) The role of gesture, (6) Innateness, (7) Selective advantage of language, (8) Proto-language.

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