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100	1		_aJohansson, Sverker, _d1961- _eauthor. _99658
240	1	0	_aPå spanning efter språkets ursprung. _lEnglish
245	1	4	_aThe dawn of language : _bhow we came to talk / _cSverker Johansson ; translated from the Swedish by Frank Perry.
264		1	_aLondon : _bMacLehose Press, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a415 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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336			_acartographic image _bcri _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aOriginally published in Swedish by Natur & Kultur, 2019.
500			_aTranslated from the Swedish.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPart one. On language. Human language -- Language in other creatures? -- Part two. On origins -- The other apes and us -- Explaining the characteristics of the various species and languages -- Darwin's explanation -- Heredity, environment and language -- The language-ready brain -- The cooperative ape -- Part three. On the origin of language -- The first speaker -- The first topic of conversation -- The cave man -- Cultural "man" -- The first languages -- The warp and weft of the protolanguage.
520			_aWho 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? Johansson's far-reaching, authoritative and research-based approach to language is brought to life through dozens of astonishing examples, both human and animal, in a fascinatingly erudite and entertaining volume for anyone who has ever contemplated not just why we speak the way we do, but why we speak at all -- _cSource other than Library of Congress.
650		0	_aLanguage and languages _xOrigin.
650		0	_aBiolinguistics.
650		0	_aHuman evolution.
650		6	_aLangage et langues _xOrigines.
650		6	_aBiolinguistique.
650		6	_aHomme _xÉvolution.
700	1		_aPerry, Frank _c(Translator), _etranslator.
776	0	8	_iEbook version : _z9781529411423
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