The Evolution of Human Language by Richard K Larson

The Evolution of Human Language by Richard K Larson

The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such standpoints, including language's genetic basis, the anthropological context of its appearance, its formal structure, its relation to systems of cognition and thought, as well as its possible evolutionary antecedents. The book includes Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch's seminal and provocative essay on the subject, 'The Faculty of Language,' and charts the progress of research in this active and highly controversial field since its publication in 2002. This timely volume will be welcomed by researchers and students in a number of disciplines, including linguistics, evolutionary biology, psychology, and cognitive science.

Richard K. Larson is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, New York. Viviane Depréz is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Hiroko Yamakido is Assistant Professor of Japanese and Linguistics at Lawrence University, Wisconsin.

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ISBN 13	9780521736251
ISBN 10	0521736250
Title	The Evolution of Human Language
Author	Richard K Larson
Series	Approaches To The Evolution Of Language
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2010-01-07
Number of pages	280
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