Becoming Loquens
Möller, Anke / Bichakjian, Bernard H. / Chernigovskaya, Tatiana / Kendon, Adam
Once declared an unworthy pursuit for learned linguists, the study of language origins has recently become a matter of intensive respectable research. The change is understandable, because, while the nineteenth-century imaginative linguists could only speculate, today's scientists can soberly investigate and present the hard data that could serve to outline the gradual evolution that led to the emergence and development of oral communication. ...