by Jean Aitchison · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780521462464
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«The Seeds of Speech» is Jean Aitchison's linguistics essay, published by Cambridge University Press in paperback (281 pages, in English).
The work explains why human language is a strange communication system, closer to birdsong than to the calls of other primates. Aitchison approaches it as a prehistoric puzzle: pieces of evolution, animal communication, child language, pidgins and linguistic change, and reviews theories about its origin.
Published in 1996, this title is part of the Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics series and includes bibliographic references and an index.
Aimed at readers interested in the origin of language who seek an accessible introduction to linguistics.
scientific article published in July 1994
