Language Evolution : The Windows Approach

Name: Language Evolution
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107135130
Price: 17100 KES
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ISBN: 9781107135130

by Rudolf Botha

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Format Hardback

Book Series Approaches to the Evolution of Language

ISBN-10 1107135133

ISBN-13 9781107135130

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 3rd, 2016

Print length 230 Pages

Weight 592 grams

Dimensions 16.10 x 23.60 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Historical & comparative linguistics Historical and comparative linguistics

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The lack of direct evidence about language evolution makes it notoriously difficult to study. The Windows Approach gleans indirect evidence about it from phenomena such as fossil skulls, prehistoric shell-beads, homesign systems, pidgin languages and motherese. Botha elucidates, analyses and appraises this approach in detail.

How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it? Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in his fascinating new book. Inferences can be drawn about language evolution from a range of other phenomena, serving as windows into this prehistoric process. These include shell-beads, fossil skulls and ancestral brains, modern pidgin and creole languages, homesign systems and emergent sign languages, modern motherese, language use of modern hunter-gatherers, first language acquisition, similarities between language and music, and comparative animal behaviour. The first systematic analysis of the Windows Approach, it will be of interest to students and researchers in many disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, palaeontology and primatology, as well as anyone interested in how language evolved.

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