The first word: the search for the origins of language
The search for the origin of human language has finally come of age. For centuries, progress in Ur-language research was slow and spasmodic; many scientists came to believe that there was no definitive way to answer its central questions. Then, in the past 20 years, everything changed. Linguist Kenn...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The search for the origin of human language has finally come of age. For centuries, progress in Ur-language research was slow and spasmodic; many scientists came to believe that there was no definitive way to answer its central questions. Then, in the past 20 years, everything changed. Linguist Kenneally shows how linguists, cognitive scientists, animal researchers, biologists, and geneticists have all contributed valuable new insights into language evolution.--From publisher description. |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 357 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780670034901 0670034908 |
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| adam_text | For all the remarkable accomplishments of sci¬
ence
—
discoveries that have ranged from the
subatomic to the celestial
—
no field of
inquiry has been more captivating, more
inspiring, or more controversial than the study of
humankind. Our quest to understand ourselves has
taken us from tracing millions of years of our primate
ancestry to decoding the human genome, yet sur¬
prisingly, one of our species signal achievements has
remained stubbornly resistant to illumination.
Language, viewed from any perspective, remains
almost an ineffable miracle: the tool that liberated us
from the savannah, the tool that gave rise to history,
the tool that enables us even to imagine such things.
But where did language come from? For years the pre¬
vailing view was that associated with Noam Chomsky:
namely, that language is a uniquely human ability,
hardwired into our genes with predetermined rules of
grammar to make it work. Any attempt to trace lan¬
guage as an evolutionary development was considered
downright suspect, if not impossible, as there were no
fossils or other forms of primitive recording to leave
their shadowy traces through the ages.
But recent discoveries by cognitive scientists, biolo¬
gists, geneticists, and animal researchers make the
search for the origins of language not only viable but
one of the most fascinating topics in science. In The
First Word, Christine Kenneally examines the many
threads of this remarkable quest and its revelation of
how the random and layered processes of evolution
have wound together to produce a talking animal.
Studies in subjects as diverse as ape gestures, parrot
cognition, numerical and grammatical competence in
monkeys, and self-awareness in dolphins are changing
our understanding of how language came about
—
not
as a sudden, dramatic shift in our genes but as a grad¬
ual process involving somatic, neurological, and
cultural innovations.
The First Word is not only a compelling historical
account of our greatest intellectual faculty but a
provocative consideration of what it means, finally, to
be human.
|
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For all the remarkable accomplishments of sci¬
ence
—
discoveries that have ranged from the
subatomic to the celestial
—
no field of
inquiry has been more captivating, more
inspiring, or more controversial than the study of
humankind. Our quest to understand ourselves has
taken us from tracing millions of years of our primate
ancestry to decoding the human genome, yet sur¬
prisingly, one of our species' signal achievements has
remained stubbornly resistant to illumination.
Language, viewed from any perspective, remains
almost an ineffable miracle: the tool that liberated us
from the savannah, the tool that gave rise to history,
the tool that enables us even to imagine such things.
But where did language come from? For years the pre¬
vailing view was that associated with Noam Chomsky:
namely, that language is a uniquely human ability,
hardwired into our genes with predetermined rules of
grammar to make it work. Any attempt to trace lan¬
guage as an evolutionary development was considered
downright suspect, if not impossible, as there were no
fossils or other forms of primitive recording to leave
their shadowy traces through the ages.
But recent discoveries by cognitive scientists, biolo¬
gists, geneticists, and animal researchers make the
search for the origins of language not only viable but
one of the most fascinating topics in science. In The
First Word, Christine Kenneally examines the many
threads of this remarkable quest and its revelation of
how the random and layered processes of evolution
have wound together to produce a talking animal.
Studies in subjects as diverse as ape gestures, parrot
cognition, numerical and grammatical competence in
monkeys, and self-awareness in dolphins are changing
our understanding of how language came about
—
not
as a sudden, dramatic shift in our genes but as a grad¬
ual process involving somatic, neurological, and
cultural innovations.
The First Word is not only a compelling historical
account of our greatest intellectual faculty but a
provocative consideration of what it means, finally, to
be human. |
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