| 书目名称 | The Origins of Language | | 副标题 | An Introduction to E | | 编辑 | Joanna Dornbierer-Stuart | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Takes a balanced approach that sees language evolution as a co-evolved continuum involving culture and cognition.Provides an easy-to-follow textbook in a key area gaining wider recognition in the scie | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book offers an introduction to the multidisciplinary subject of evolutionary linguistics, which seeks to explain the biological origins of language and its subsequent development in humans. Roughly six million years ago, a branch of hominids from the forests of East Africa started to thrive in the drier environment created by the East African Rift System. A host of physical developments culminated in the brains of early humans increasing dramatically in size and cognitive power. Influenced by a unique and complex social organisation, communication signals became much more diverse and dependent on memory and learning mechanisms. But language is not only used to interact with our fellow beings. It is also closely connected to our thoughts. This makes language a biological, social, cultural and cognitive phenomenon all at once. What precise role did each of these aspects play in the emergence of language and how were they all coordinated to produce the most sophisticated communication system in the animal kingdom? The book aims to answer these questions and open up the fascinating world of evolutionary linguistics. It is not only aimed at scholars of linguistics, but also studen | | 出版日期 | Textbook 2024 | | 关键词 | Evolutionary linguistics; Biolinguistics; Language and cognition; Origin of language; Cultural evolution | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54938-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-54937-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-54938-0 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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