The Nature and Origin of Language

by Denis Bouchard

Book Overview

This book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language then evolved. Its four parts are concerned with different views on the emergence of language, with what language is, how it evolved in the human brain, and finally how this process led to the properties of language. Part I considers the main approaches to the subject and how far language evolved culturally or genetically. Part II argues that language is a system...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199681627
• ISBN13: 9780199681624
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"