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This book brings together the most important insights from the vast amount of literature on the origin of language.
This book brings together the most important insights from the vast amount of literature on the origin of language.
Über den Autor
W. Tecumseh Fitch is a Reader in Psychology at the University of St Andrews. He studies the evolution of cognition and communication in animals and man, focusing on the evolution of speech, music and language. He is interested in all aspects of vocal communication in terrestrial vertebrates, particularly vertebrate vocal production in relation to the evolution of speech and music in our own species.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; Part I. The Lay of the Land: 1. Language from a biological perspective; 2. Evolution; 3. Language; 4. Animal cognition and communication; Part II. Meet the Ancestors: 5. Meet the ancestors; 6. The last common ancestor; 7. The hominid fossil record; Part III. The Evolution of Speech: 8. The evolution of the human vocal tract; 9. The evolution of vocal control; 10. Modelling the evolution of speech; Part IV. Phylogenetic Models of Language Evolution: 11. Language evolution before Darwin; 12. Lexical protolanguage; 13. Gestural protolanguage; 14. Musical protolanguage; 15. Conclusions and prospects.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2010 |
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Genre: | Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft |
Rubrik: | Sprachwissenschaft |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780521677363 |
ISBN-10: | 052167736X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Fitch, W. Tecumseh |
Hersteller: | Cambridge University Press |
Maße: | 244 x 170 x 33 mm |
Von/Mit: | W. Tecumseh Fitch |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.01.2010 |
Gewicht: | 1,06 kg |
Über den Autor
W. Tecumseh Fitch is a Reader in Psychology at the University of St Andrews. He studies the evolution of cognition and communication in animals and man, focusing on the evolution of speech, music and language. He is interested in all aspects of vocal communication in terrestrial vertebrates, particularly vertebrate vocal production in relation to the evolution of speech and music in our own species.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; Part I. The Lay of the Land: 1. Language from a biological perspective; 2. Evolution; 3. Language; 4. Animal cognition and communication; Part II. Meet the Ancestors: 5. Meet the ancestors; 6. The last common ancestor; 7. The hominid fossil record; Part III. The Evolution of Speech: 8. The evolution of the human vocal tract; 9. The evolution of vocal control; 10. Modelling the evolution of speech; Part IV. Phylogenetic Models of Language Evolution: 11. Language evolution before Darwin; 12. Lexical protolanguage; 13. Gestural protolanguage; 14. Musical protolanguage; 15. Conclusions and prospects.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2010 |
---|---|
Genre: | Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft |
Rubrik: | Sprachwissenschaft |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780521677363 |
ISBN-10: | 052167736X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Fitch, W. Tecumseh |
Hersteller: | Cambridge University Press |
Maße: | 244 x 170 x 33 mm |
Von/Mit: | W. Tecumseh Fitch |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.01.2010 |
Gewicht: | 1,06 kg |
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