Language Evolution

ISBN-13: 9780199244836 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 416 str.

Simon Kirby; Morten Christiansen; Morten H. Christiansen

Opis

The leading scholars in the rapidly growing field of language evolution give readable accounts of their theories on the origins of language and reflect on the most important current issues and debates. As well as providing a guide to their own published research in this area they highlight what they see as the most relevant research of others. The authors come from a wide range of disciplines involved in language evolution including linguistics, cognitive science, computational science, primatology, and archaeology.

Recenzje

In the beginning there was no language. Now there is. Language Evolution describes the passage as a wonderful voyage of discovery.

O autorze

Morten H. Christiansen is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. He is co-editor of Connectionist Psycholinguistics published by Ablex in 2001. Simon Kirby is a British Academy Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh: his book, Function, Selection, and Innateness was published by OUP in 1999.