Finding Our Tongues : Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language

Name: Finding Our Tongues
Brand: Basic Books
SKU: 9780465002191
Price: 5800 KES
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ISBN: 9780465002191

by Dean Falk

Book Details

Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0465002196

ISBN-13 9780465002191

Publisher Basic Books

Imprint Basic Books

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 17th, 2009

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 470 grams

Dimensions 16.60 x 24.30 x 2.70 cms

Product Classification: Science: general issues Developmental biology

KSh 5,800.00

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A controversial new theory that the origins of spoken language, music, and art lie in the early communication between mothers and infants

Scientists have long theorized that abstract, symbolic thinking evolved to help humans negotiate such classically male activities as hunting, tool making, and warfare, and eventually developed into spoken language. In Finding Our Tongues, Dean Falk overturns this established idea, offering a daring new theory that springs from a simple observation: parents all over the world, in all cultures, talk to infants by using baby talk or "Motherese." Falk shows how Motherese developed as a way of reassuring babies when mothers had to put them down in order to do work. The melodic vocalizations of early Motherese not only provided the basis of language but also contributed to the growth of music and art.

Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with classic anthropology, Falk offers a potent challenge to conventional wisdom about the emergence of human language.

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