How Language Began : Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution - David McNeill

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How Language Began

Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution

By: David McNeill

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Hardcover | 30 August 2012

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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.

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'Long before embodied cognition was a recognized field of study, David McNeill was demonstrating the inseparability of language and gesture. In this new work he extends this pioneering approach to encompass the origins of human language.' Elena Levy, University of Connecticut
'... grounded in the expertise of more than three decades of studying gestures with speech, this book will significantly change the scholarly debates on language evolution.' Cornelia Mueller, Professor of Applied Linguistics, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Psycholinguistics Sign Languages Historical & Comparative Linguistics Science Biology, Life Sciences Life Sciences in General Evolution Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

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
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How Language Began

Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution

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