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

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The Seeds of Speech : Language Origin and Evolution by Aitchison, JeanISBN: 9780521785716 Cambridge University Press 20 March 2012 Paperback 296 pages Human language is a weird communication system: it has more in common with birdsong than with the calls of other primates. In this wide ranging and accessible overview, first published in 2000, Jean Aitchison explores the origins of human language and how it has evolved. She likens the search to a vast pre historic jigsaw puzzle, in which numerous fragments of evidence

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