The Origin of Speech (Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language)
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (853 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 019923650X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has written over 120 papers on the topic of complex action systems and their evolution. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Acoustical Society of America, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural and Social Sciences.. Peter MacNeilage is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin
To investigate the evolutionary origins of this prodigious ability, Peter MacNeilage draws on work in linguistics, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and animal behaviour. He puts forward a neo-Darwinian account of speech as a process of descent in which ancestral vocal capabilities became modified in response to natural selection pressures for more efficient communication. During every second of speech we unconsciously use about 225 distinct muscle actions. This book explores the origin and evolution of speech. The human speech system is in a league of its own in the animal kingdom and its possession dwarfs most other evolutionary achievements. His proposals include the crucial observation that present-day inf
"Excellent Treatment of the Neurobiology of Speech and its Implications for the Evolution of Language" according to M.N.JAM. MacNeilage reviews his own research and that of others to synthesize what is known of the neurobiology of speech and to explore the implications of this neurobiology for the evolution and structure of language. More specifically, MacNeilage explores the the neurobiology of syllable and how it might have given rise to sentence production. This is the best treatment of the evolution of speech since books on this subject by Philip L
"This book does a masterful job of assembling and interpreting all of the evidence we have concerning the evolution of speaking. In the long run it may not be the final word, but until we have a better story, this is the one that must be the prime contender." --Linguist List"Quite compelling" --Mark Aranoff, The Quarterly Review of Biology