From Hand to Mouth : : The Origins of Language / / Michael C. Corballis.
It is often said that speech is what distinguishes us from other animals. But are we all talk? What if language was bequeathed to us not by word of mouth, but as a hand-me-down? The notion that language evolved not from animal cries but from manual and facial gestures--that, for most of human histor...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 13 color illus. 5 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What Is Language?
- 2 Do Animals Have Language?
- 3 In the Beginning Was the Gesture
- 4 On Our Own Two Feet
- 5 Becoming Human
- 6 Signed Language
- 7 It's All Talk
- 8 Why Are We Lopsided?
- 9 From Hand to Mouth
- 10 Synopsis
- References
- Index