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"Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on ""living linguistic fossils"" such as ""ape talk,"" the ""two-word"" stage of small children, and pidgin languages, and on recent discoveries in paleoanthropology, Bickerton shows how a primitive ""protolanguage"" could have offered Homo erectus a novel ecological niche. He goes on to demonstrate how this protolanguage could have developed into the languages we speak today. ""You are drawn into [Bickerton's] appreciation of the dominant role language plays not only in what we say, but in what we think and, therefore, what we are.""—Robert Wright, New York Times Book Review ""The evolution of language is a fascinating topic, and Bickerton's Language and Species is the best introduction we have.""—John C. Marshall, Nature"

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Author:   Derek Bickerton
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.30cm
Weight:   0.425kg
ISBN:  

9780226046112

ISBN 10:   0226046117
Pages:   305
Publication Date:   15 April 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Derek Bickerton is professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Hawaii and is the author of several books, including Roots of Language.

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