Scientific evidence for the origin of speech is abundant, but evidence for the origin of language as separate from speech as a naming system remains speculative. What evidence can be utilized that will furnish relevant insights on the origin or langu...Daugiau...
Scientific evidence for the origin of speech is abundant, but evidence for the origin of language as separate from speech as a naming system remains speculative. What evidence can be utilized that will furnish relevant insights on the origin or langu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Apr-2022, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262368131)
An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello explores the history and practice of inventing languag...Daugiau...
Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive Richard DawkinsFull of Fascinating details. A delight to read. Tim HarfordHighly original and convincing ... a delight to read! - Daniel Everett............................................................Daugiau...
Serija: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Oct-2021, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262366038)
A novel account of the evolution of language and the cognitive capacities on which language depends.In From Signal to Symbol, Ronald Planer and Kim Sterelny propose a novel theory of language: that modern language is the product of a long series of i...Daugiau...
"e;A model of popular-science writing"e; STEVEN POOLEWho was "e;the first speaker"e; and what was their first message An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanitys greatest mysteries - the origins of l...Daugiau...
Drawing from the disciplines of cognitive science, Paleolithic anthropology, art history, and semiotics, Karen A. Haworth and Terry J. Prewitt offer a novel discussion of the origins of language, based primarily in the distinction of holistic versus...Daugiau...
Drawing from the disciplines of cognitive science, Paleolithic anthropology, art history, and semiotics, Karen A. Haworth and Terry J. Prewitt offer a novel discussion of the origins of language, based primarily in the distinction of holistic versus...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 11-Jun-2020, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000189759)
Language is central to human experience and our understanding of who we are, whether written or unwritten, sung or spoken. But what is language and how do we record it? Where does it reside? Does it exist and evolve within written sources, in perform...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 11-Jun-2020, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000183122)
Language is central to human experience and our understanding of who we are, whether written or unwritten, sung or spoken. But what is language and how do we record it? Where does it reside? Does it exist and evolve within written sources, in perform...Daugiau...
We usually think about language and pain as opposites, the one being about expression and connection, the other destructive, "e;beyond words"e; so to speak, and isolating. Language Pangs challenges these familiar conceptions and offers a radi...Daugiau...
We usually think about language and pain as opposites, the one being about expression and connection, the other destructive, "e;beyond words"e; so to speak, and isolating. Language Pangs challenges these familiar conceptions and offers a radi...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Dec-2018, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226220949)
Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on "e;living linguistic fossils"e; such as "e;ape talk,"e; the "e;two-word"e; stage of small children, an...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Dec-2018, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226220949)
Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on "e;living linguistic fossils"e; such as "e;ape talk,"e; the "e;two-word"e; stage of small children, an...Daugiau...
Tool Intelligence taps field-primatological and field-linguistic research to draw an analogy between prelinguistic material cultures of nonhuman primates and natural human languages. Linguistics and Cognitive Science are given new incentives to searc...Daugiau...
Tool Intelligence taps field-primatological and field-linguistic research to draw an analogy between prelinguistic material cultures of nonhuman primates and natural human languages. Linguistics and Cognitive Science are given new incentives to searc...Daugiau...
Serija: Psychology Library Editions: Speech and Language Disorders
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Oct-2018, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780429788796)
For many centuries scientists and philosophers have endeavoured to solve the baffling problem of human language. Originally published in 1949, Dr Stein had been fascinated by this problem and collected an enormous amount of data from past and present...Daugiau...
Serija: Psychology Library Editions: Speech and Language Disorders
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Oct-2018, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780429788789)
For many centuries scientists and philosophers have endeavoured to solve the baffling problem of human language. Originally published in 1949, Dr Stein had been fascinated by this problem and collected an enormous amount of data from past and present...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Feb-2018, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Inc, ISBN-13: 9781351523608)
In this work, originally published in Dutch, Rik Smits theorizes that language could not have developed originally as a system of communication. It is, instead, the result of combining separate abilities, each of which developed independently to aid...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Feb-2018, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Inc, ISBN-13: 9781351523592)
In this work, originally published in Dutch, Rik Smits theorizes that language could not have developed originally as a system of communication. It is, instead, the result of combining separate abilities, each of which developed independently to aid...Daugiau...
Robert Seyfarth, Dorothy Cheney, Michael L. Platt, Michael L. Platt
Serija: Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Series
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Dec-2017, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400888146)
How human language evolved from the need for social communicationThe origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human la...Daugiau...
Robert Seyfarth, Dorothy Cheney, Michael L. Platt, Michael L. Platt
Serija: Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Series
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Dec-2017, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400888146)
How human language evolved from the need for social communicationThe origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human la...Daugiau...
In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? what is it? and what is it for Daniel Everett confounds the conventional wisdom that languag...Daugiau...
Presents a comprehensive review of nonhuman primate audition and vocal communication. These are obviously intimately related topics, but are often addressed separately. The hearing abilities of primates have been tested experimentally in a large numb...Daugiau...
Presents a comprehensive review of nonhuman primate audition and vocal communication. These are obviously intimately related topics, but are often addressed separately. The hearing abilities of primates have been tested experimentally in a large numb...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Mar-2017, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226287225)
Evolutionary science has long viewed language as, basically, a fortunate accident-a crossing of wires that happened to be extraordinarily useful, setting humans apart from other animals and onto a trajectory that would see their brains (and the produ...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Mar-2017, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226287225)
Evolutionary science has long viewed language as, basically, a fortunate accident-a crossing of wires that happened to be extraordinarily useful, setting humans apart from other animals and onto a trajectory that would see their brains (and the produ...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Mar-2017, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192549181)
This book proposes a new two-step approach to the evolution of language, whereby syntax first evolved as an auto-organizational process for the human conceptual apparatus (as a Language of Thought), and this Language of Thought was then externalized...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Mar-2017, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191064470)
This book proposes a new two-step approach to the evolution of language, whereby syntax first evolved as an auto-organizational process for the human conceptual apparatus (as a Language of Thought), and this Language of Thought was then externalized...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Nov-2016, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231542883)
The quest to understand the evolution of the literary mind has become a fertile field of inquiry and speculation for scholars across literary studies and cognitive science. In Paleopoetics, Christopher Collinss acclaimed earlier title, he described...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Nov-2016, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231542883)
The quest to understand the evolution of the literary mind has become a fertile field of inquiry and speculation for scholars across literary studies and cognitive science. In Paleopoetics, Christopher Collinss acclaimed earlier title, he described...Daugiau...
In the beginning there was one language-one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. "e;These days, no one bothers to ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, vaguely embarrassing and irksome, like question...Daugiau...
A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style Wolfe s great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately wanted to read it again. - Bryan Appleyard, Sunday T...Daugiau...
As language historians we believe that the subject of our study is neither natural languages nor idiolects which speakers have always been able to develop individually (loosely what Chomsky calls L-i), but rather the social constructions of reference...Daugiau...
The case-studies assembled in these two volumes span a lifetime of research into the diachrony of grammar. That is, into the rise and fall of syntactic constructions and their attendant grammatical morphology. While focused squarely on the data, the...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Dec-2014, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231538282)
Language did not evolve only in the distant past. Our shared understanding of the meanings of words is ever-changing, and we make conscious, rational decisions about which words to use and what to mean by them every day. Applying Charles Darwins the...Daugiau...
