03251nam 22006852 450 991082056440332120151005020622.01-316-08982-71-139-56454-41-283-61086-81-139-55100-097866139233181-139-10866-21-139-55596-01-139-54975-81-139-55471-91-139-55225-2(CKB)2560000000093272(EBL)989131(OCoLC)811502343(SSID)ssj0000753499(PQKBManifestationID)11966171(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000753499(PQKBWorkID)10815385(PQKB)11607619(UkCbUP)CR9781139108669(MiAaPQ)EBC989131(Au-PeEL)EBL989131(CaPaEBR)ebr10602830(CaONFJC)MIL392331(EXLCZ)99256000000009327220110718d2012|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHow language began gesture and speech in human evolution /David McNeill[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2012.1 online resource (xiv, 264 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Approaches to the evolution of languageTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-60549-0 1-107-02121-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Gesture and the origin of language -- What evolved (in part): The Growth Point -- How it evolved (in part): Mead's Loop -- Effects of Mead's Loop -- Ontogenesis in evolution, evolution in ontogenesis -- Alternatives, their limits, and the science base of the growth point.Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together into a system that all humans possess. Nearly all theorizing about the origins of language either ignores gesture, views it as an add-on or supposes that language began in gesture and was later replaced by speech. David McNeill challenges the popular 'gesture-first' theory that language first emerged in a gesture-only form and proposes a groundbreaking theory of the evolution of language which explains how speech and gesture became unified.Approaches to the evolution of language.Language and languagesOriginSpeech and gestureLanguage and languagesOrigin.Speech and gesture.401McNeill DavidDr,161270UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910820564403321How language began3916691UNINA