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edited by William S-Y. Wang · 1991
The Emergence
of Language
edited by William S-Y. Wang
About this Book
A Readings from Scientific American collection edited by WILLIAM S-Y. WANG, gathering articles published between 1972 and 1989. Copyright 1991, W. H. Freeman; ISBN 0-7167-2146-5. The contents are a roll-call: EDWARD O. WILSON on animal communication; Ann James Premack and David Premack on teaching language to an ape; DENISE SCHMANDT-BESSERAT on the earliest precursor of writing; COLIN RENFREW on the origins of the Indo-European languages; DEREK BICKERTON on CREOLE LANGUAGES; NORMAN GESCHWIND on specializations of the human brain; Gould and Marler on learning by instinct; Johan Sundberg on the acoustics of the singing voice; Peter Eimas on speech perception in early infancy; Breyne Arlene Moskowitz on the acquisition of language; GEORGE A. MILLER and Patricia Gildea on how children learn words; and Frank Vellutino on dyslexia. Miller and Bickerton both appear elsewhere in this collection in their own books.
