Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language

by Dean Falk

Book Overview

Scientists have long theorized that abstract, symbolic thinking evolved to help humans negotiate such classically male activities as hunting, tool making, and warfare, and eventually developed into spoken language. In Finding Our Tongues, Dean Falk overturns this established idea, offering a daring new theory that springs from a simple observation: parents all over the world, in all cultures, talk to infants by using baby talk or "Motherese."...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465002196
• ISBN13: 9780465002191
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"