Language Evolution

The lack of direct evidence about language evolution makes it notoriously difficult to study. The Windows Approach gleans indirect evidence about i...

Reducere. This essay reflects on the fact that as we learn more about the biological underpinnings of our language faculty, the dominant evolutionary narrati...

This cross-linguistic study explores the role of the ideophone - a single word that conveys an impression of what it describes - in language evolut...

Reducere. This vocabulary contains 109 entries in the Powhatan language of Virginia as collected on the 1606 voyage of Capt. John Smith. Alsoincludes word\-l...

Reducere. DescriptionCreative Evolution was published in 1907, and translated into English in 1911. In it, Henri Bergson proposes a version of orthogenesis i...

Reducere. In his early plastic age, the child presents an asymmetrical growth in what concerns his motor system, when compared with his cognitive system. The...

Reducere. The human mind is an unlikely evolutionary adaptation. How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than anything a hunting-and-ga...

Reducere. Covering all facets of the biology of a little-known genus, Peter V. Lindeman's lavishly illustrated Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas is both a scienti...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Kim SterelnyNumber of pages: 288Collection: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and PsychologyPublica...

Reducere. What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at long last makes sense in this intriguing book about wh...

Already hailed as a masterpiece, Foundations of Language offers a brilliant overhaul of the last thirty-five years of research in generative lingui...

Reducere. Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Neuroscience of Feelings, Emotions, and Our Darkest Impulses. This introductory text provides a detailed overview of those brains st...

Reducere. This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history...