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It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what langu

Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific abili

What can the classification of languages tell us about human origins and human prehistory? This book presents a popular account of the origin of language. It is

This book offers an accessible overview of what is known about the evolution of the human capacity for language and what sets human language apart from the simp