Language & species / Derek Bickerton.
By: Bickerton, Derek
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TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1990Description: x, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0226046109 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Language and languages -- Origin | Human evolutionDDC classification: 401 LOC classification: P116 | .B52 1990Online resources: Publisher description | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-290) and index.
The continuity paradox -- Language as representation : the atlas -- Language as representation : the itineraries -- The origins of representational systems -- The fossils of language -- The world of the protolanguage -- From protolanguage to language -- Mind, consciousness, and knowledge -- The nature of the species.
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.
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