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Evolutionary Linguistics

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By: April McMahon(Author), Robert J McMahon(Author)
326 pages, 21 b/w illustrations, 2 tables
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How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? When, why and where did our ancestors become linguistic animals, and what has happened since?

Evolutionary Linguistics provides a clear, comprehensive but lively introduction to these interdisciplinary debates. Written in an approachable style, it cuts through the complex, sometimes contradictory and often obscure technical languages used in the different scientific disciplines involved in the study of linguistic evolution. Assuming no background knowledge in these disciplines, Evolutionary Linguistics outlines the physical and neurological structures underlying language systems, and the limits of our knowledge concerning their evolution.

Discussion questions and further reading lists encourage students to explore the primary literature further, and the final chapter of Evolutionary Linguistics demonstrates that while many questions still remain unanswered, there is a growing consensus as to how modern human languages have arisen as systems by the interplay of evolved structures and cultural transmission.

Contents

1. Evolution and history
2. Evidence for evolution
3. The comparative methods
4. Who, where and when?
5. The vocal tract
6. Language and the brain
7. Language and genes
8. Big bang or cumulative creep? Saltation versus gradual, adaptive evolution
9. From protolanguage to language

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Biography

April McMahon is Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University. Robert McMahon is a Research Associate in the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University.

Textbook
By: April McMahon(Author), Robert J McMahon(Author)
326 pages, 21 b/w illustrations, 2 tables
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"Ideal material for my postgraduate course in evolutionary linguistics."
- Andrew Smith, University of Stirling

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