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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: D. Kimbrough OllerPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Psychology Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.830kg ISBN: 9780805826296ISBN 10: 0805826297 Pages: 446 Publication Date: 01 January 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""In this weighty but well-organized volume, Oller delineates his 'infrastructural' model of language development, which can account for both the stages of infant vocalization and the evolution of human speech and language....At all times, Oller gives balanced, conservative interpretations of research results related to his model, and he is careful to explain technical terms that might be outside the experience of the reader. Highly recommended for professional linguists and graduate students at advanced (and perhaps high-intermediate) levels of study."" —CHOICE ""Kim Oller has written a truly remarkable synthesis on the origins of human speech. He integrates the latest understanding of vocal communication in non-human primates and our hominid ancestors with the earliest developmental stages of infant vocalizations. No one has provided a clearer or more detailed description of how speech emerges from the earliest vocalizations of human infants. This is a critically important book for everyone interested in the developmental and evolutionary origins of speech and language."" —Charles T. Snowdon University of Wisconsin-Madison ""The Emergence of the Speech Capacity sets the basic parameters of the field and offers a principled way of evaluating and interpreting the author's and other research findings. Surprisingly light for its theoretical bounty, the book offers personal, heretofore private glimpses behind the empirical scenes of the largest and most coherent collection of studies in the area. This is one of the most remarkable books I have encountered in recent years."" —John L. Locke University of Cambridge ""Oller's infraphonological model solves age-old problems and provides fresh insights into the vocalizations of human infants and the communicative behaviors of our species and our ancestors. A deeply human book about a deeply human capacity."" —Dan I. Slobin University of California, Berkeley" In this weighty but well-organized volume, Oller delineates his 'infrastructural' model of language development, which can account for both the stages of infant vocalization and the evolution of human speech and language....At all times, Oller gives balanced, conservative interpretations of research results related to his model, and he is careful to explain technical terms that might be outside the experience of the reader. Highly recommended for professional linguists and graduate students at advanced (and perhaps high-intermediate) levels of study. -CHOICE Kim Oller has written a truly remarkable synthesis on the origins of human speech. He integrates the latest understanding of vocal communication in non-human primates and our hominid ancestors with the earliest developmental stages of infant vocalizations. No one has provided a clearer or more detailed description of how speech emerges from the earliest vocalizations of human infants. This is a critically important book for everyone interested in the developmental and evolutionary origins of speech and language. -Charles T. Snowdon University of Wisconsin-Madison The Emergence of the Speech Capacity sets the basic parameters of the field and offers a principled way of evaluating and interpreting the author's and other research findings. Surprisingly light for its theoretical bounty, the book offers personal, heretofore private glimpses behind the empirical scenes of the largest and most coherent collection of studies in the area. This is one of the most remarkable books I have encountered in recent years. -John L. Locke University of Cambridge Oller's infraphonological model solves age-old problems and provides fresh insights into the vocalizations of human infants and the communicative behaviors of our species and our ancestors. A deeply human book about a deeply human capacity. -Dan I. Slobin University of California, Berkeley Author InformationD. Kimbrough Oller Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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