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The First Word
The Search for the Origins of Language
by Christine Kenneally
ISBN: 0670034908
ISBN-13: 9780670034901
Format: Hardcover
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published date: 2007
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.35 pounds
Pages: 357
Synopses
The search for the origin of human language has finally come of age. For centuries, progress in Ur-language research was slow and spasmodic; many scientists came to believe that there was no definitive way to answer its central questions. Then, in the past 20 years, everything changed. Linguist Kenneally shows how linguists, cognitive scientists, animal researchers, biologists, and geneticists have all contributed valuable new insights into language evolution.--From publisher description.
Publisher's Notes
A history of the quest for human language origins is comprised of two intertwined narratives that respectively trace the development of language and the process through which scientists have explored the subject, in an account that also documents the contributions of such figures as Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker.
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