The Dawn of Language by Sverker Johansson (.ePUB)+
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The Dawn of Language: How We Came to Talk by Sverker Johansson
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Overview: Who was “the first speaker” and what was their first message?
An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanity’s greatest mysteries – the origins of language.
Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users. The Dawn of Language provides a fascinating survey of how grammar came into being and the differences or similarities between languages spoken around the world, before exploring how language eventually emerged in the very remote human past.
Our intellectual and physiological changes through the process of evolution both have a bearing on our ability to acquire language. But to what extent is the evolution of language dependent on genes, or on environment? How has language evolved further, and how is it changing now, in the process of globalisation? And which aspects of language ensure that robots are not yet intelligent enough to reconstruct how language has evolved?
Genre: Non-Fiction > History > Educational > Philosophy > Evolution
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