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Origins of language :
Origins of language : Constraints on hypotheses
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- Johansson, Sverker (författare)
- Jönköping University,HLK, Ämnesforskning,Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Ämnesforskning
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- ISBN 978 90 272 3891 7
- Amsterdam : John Benjamins, 2005
- Engelska 346 s.
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Serie: Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 1566-7774 ; 5
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Abstract
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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.
Ämnesord
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Utvecklingsbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Developmental Biology (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Linguistics
- Lingvistik
- Developmental biology
- Utvecklingsbiologi
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