Language & species
Language & species1990
About this book
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.
Details
- First published
- 1990
- OL Work ID
- OL2918607W
Subjects
OriginLanguage and languagesHuman evolutionLinguistics, researchLangage et languesOriginesHommeÉvolutionTaalgeneseBiological EvolutionLanguageLanguage and languages, origin