Language in a Darwinian Perspective

Name: Language in a Darwinian Perspective
Brand: Peter Lang GmbH
SKU: 9783631388822
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Автор: Bernard H. Bichakjan

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Издател: Peter Lang GmbH

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Though it is well-known that nothing makes sense in biology except in the light of evolution, in lin...

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Автор

Bernard H. Bichakjan

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2002

страници

343

EAN

9783631388822

ISBN

9783631388822

Enbook ID

10024169

Издател

Peter Lang GmbH

Теглоt

438

Размери

258 x 151 x 19

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Though it is well-known that nothing makes sense in biology except in the light of evolution, in linguistics the received view is to reject the Darwinian approach. This book breaks the prevailing taboo and argues instead that linguistic features - speech sounds, grammatical distinctions and syntactic strategies - have followed an evolutionary course. Though variation exists and gratuitious changes can be found, an in-depth study clearly suggests that on the whole linguistic features have developed under two sets of selections pressures: the pressure to reduce the neuromuscular cost, and the concomitant pressure to find ever-more functional alternatives. Moving on from language to writing, the author argues that the observed optimalization process also applies to the evolution of writing from hieroglyphs to alphabets. Both language and writing are indeed better understood in the light of evolution.

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