The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution by Jean Aitchison

The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution

Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics

Jean Aitchison

296 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced
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Human language is a weird communication system: it has more in common with birdsong than with the calls of other primates. Jean Aitchison explores the origins of human language and how it has evolved. She likens the search to a vast prehistoric ji...

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