32.3676, Books: ON THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE: POULOS

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Subject: 32.3676, Books: ON THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE: POULOS

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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:54:08
From: George Poulos [gpoulog at otenet.gr]
Subject: ON THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE: POULOS

 


Title: ON THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: George Poulos
	   https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/
	

Book URL: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZZ3YKR 


Author: GEORGE POULOS

Electronic: ISBN: B092B6ZT5L  Pages: 281 Price: U.S. $ 10.28
Paperback: ISBN:  9798721264658 Pages: 366 Price: U.S. $ 28.00


Abstract:

How and when early 'Man' started to talk, and how human language evolved from
those humble beginnings, are questions that lie at the very core of this book.

The book presents a new and insightful approach to the study of speech and
language evolution. The first speech sounds ever produced by early 'Homo
sapiens' are postulated, and a description is given of how various sounds
initially evolved, and how they gradually formed the building blocks of fully
grammatical language.

Many myths relating to when humans first started speaking are discounted with
the use of substantive phonetic and linguistic arguments. The book proposes
new timelines for the origins of human speech and language and disputes
certain claims that human speech evolved millions or even hundreds of
thousands of years ago.

The findings go a long way towards broadening our knowledge on the identity
and location of the first ‘speaking’ human beings. The early migrations of
'Homo sapiens' are addressed, and the 'Out of Africa' hypothesis is revisited
from a linguistic perspective.

A new approach is also proposed on the so-called innateness hypothesis and the
evolvement of 'Man’s' inherent capacity to speak a fully grammatical language.

The cross-fertilization of viewpoints from different disciplines is crucial in
solving the fascinating puzzle of language evolution. It is a domain of
enquiry that is multidisciplinary in nature. There is no single discipline
that can solve this puzzle on its own. To this end, relevant inputs from
different disciplines are included, such as those of anatomy, archaeology,
genetics, and palaeoanthropology.

- Available at KDP/Amazon -
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Phonetics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=158193




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