Language and Species

Language and Species
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 0226046117
ISBN-13 : 9780226046112
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Book Synopsis Language and Species by : Derek Bickerton

Download or read book Language and Species written by Derek Bickerton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on "living linguistic fossils" such as "ape talk," the "two-word" stage of small children, and pidgin languages, and on recent discoveries in paleoanthropology, Bickerton shows how a primitive "protolanguage" could have offered Homo erectus a novel ecological niche. He goes on to demonstrate how this protolanguage could have developed into the languages we speak today. --From publisher's description.


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