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Origin of Language: Facts, Research, Hypotheses

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Origin of Language: Facts, Research, Hypotheses
19.99 €
Researching the origin of human language, or glottogenesis, is like a detective story: there are too many versions, and evidence has to be pieced together. And these pieces come from different sciences. Here you have anthropology: which species of Homo developed a communication system that is closest to modern human languages? And neurophysiology: which areas of our brain “know” how to speak? And archeology: what can tools, ritual practices, and cave paintings tell us about the communication process? And genetics: how and what genes did ancient Homo pass on to each other to eventually learn to speak? And, of course, research into glottogenesis is unthinkable without taking into account the advances of linguistics: how was grammar formed and works, and how do we learn it when we learn our native and foreign languages? But most importantly, was human language initially single, or did several proto-languages arise independently in different parts of the planet? In this book, linguist and Doctor of Philological Sciences Svetlana Burlak has collected, summarized, and presented in simple language data from all these sciences and put forward her hypothesis on the origin of language.
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