The Transition to Language (Oxford Studies in the Evolution by Alison Wray

By Alison Wray

Linguists, organic anthropologists, and cognitive scientists come jointly during this ebook to discover the origins and early evolution of phonology, syntax, and semantics. they give thought to the character of pre- and proto-linguistic verbal exchange, the interior and exterior triggers that ended in its transformation into language, and even if and the way language could be thought of to have developed after its inception. proof is drawn from many domain names, together with laptop simulations of language emergence, the songs of finches, problem-solving skills in monkeys, signal language, and the constitution of languages today.

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