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This account of the origin and evolution of speech integrates up-to-date research in speech, acquisition, and neurobiology, and includes the key observation that infants learning language reveal similar constraints to those acting on our distant ancestors.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacNeilage, Peter F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Studies in the evolution of language ; 10.
Temas:
Language and languages > Origin.
Langage et langues > Origines.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Language and languages > Origin
Sprachtheorie
Sprachursprung
Sprachentwicklung
Spraak.
Oorsprong.
Språkets uppkomst.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Background : the intellectual context
  • Getting to the explanation of speech
  • The nature of modern hominid speech
  • Speech in deep time : how speech got started
  • Ontogeny and phylogeny 1 : the frame stage
  • Ontogeny and phylogeny 2 : the frame/content stage
  • The origin of words : how frame-stage patterns acquired meanings
  • Evolution of brain organization for speech : background
  • A dual brain system for the frame/content mode
  • Evolution of cerebral hemispheric specialization for speech
  • Generative phonology and the origin of speech
  • Generative phonology and the acquisition of speech
  • An amodal phonology? : implications of the existence of sign language
  • Ultimate causes of speech : genes and memes
  • Conclusions.

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