Choice Reviews Online · 1998 · 242 citations · 0 references
Life SciencesEvolutionary BiologyLinguisticsHuman EvolutionLanguage AcquisitionLanguage DevelopmentCognitive EvolutionEvolutionary AnthropologyHuman BiologyHuman PhylogenyLanguage ChangeSpeech ProductionEvolutionary DevelopmentHuman OriginsLanguage EvolutionLanguage OriginsLanguage PhylogenySpeech RepertoireSpoken Language DevelopmentSyntactic Development In Speech
A scientific examination of human speech and the origins of language looks at the evolutionary development--back to the earliest humans--of the biological functions that make human speech possible.