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How Language Began - Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution (Paperback, New)
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How Language Began - Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution (Paperback, New)
Series: Approaches to the Evolution of Language
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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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