عنوان

Adam's tongue :

(Number (ISBN

0809022818

(Number (ISBN

9780809022816

Title Proper

Adam's tongue :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

how humans made language, how language made humans /

First Statement of Responsibility

Derek Bickerton.

Edition Statement

1st ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Hill and Wang,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2009.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

286 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index.

Text of Note

The size of the problem -- Thinking like engineers -- Singing apes? -- Chatting apes? -- Niches aren't everything (they-re the only thing) -- Our ancestors in their niches -- Go to the ant, thou sluggard -- The big bang -- The challenge from Chomsky -- Making up our minds -- An acorn grows to a sapling -- The sapling becomes an oak.

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Text of Note

How language evolved has been called "the hardest problem in science." Linguist Derek Bickerton shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. This book is the first that thoroughly integrates the story of how language evolved with the story of how humans evolved. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn't the only thing that sets us apart from other species--our cognitive powers are qualitatively different. So could there be two separate discontinuities between humans and the rest of nature? No, says Bickerton; he shows how the mere possession of symbolic units--words--automatically opened a new and different cognitive universe.--From publisher description.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

Farrar Straus & Giroux, C/O Mps 16365 James Madison Hwy, Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (540)6727600

Human evolution.

Language and languages.

Psycholinguistics.

Hominidae.

Language.

Psycholinguistics.

évolution (biologie)-- homme (être humain)-- langage-- psycholinguistique.

évolution (biologie)-- langage.

Human evolution.

Language and languages.

Psycholinguistics.

Sprachursprung

Språkets uppkomst.

Språkpsykologi.

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

System Code

Bickerton, Derek.

Date of Transaction

20200822132455.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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