Review of: The evolution of human language: Biolinguistic perspectives (R. Larson et al., CUP, 2010)

Jean-Louis Dessalles (1, 2)

1 DIG - Data, Intelligence and Graphs
2 INFRES - Département Informatique et Réseaux

Where does human language come from? The ‘greatest problem in science’, according to Bickerton (2009), remains a mystery. This new volume offers a partial but important map of current ideas on the problem. The book is stimulating because of the issues it raises and surprising in the issues it ignores.

Mots clés: language; evolution

Domaines: Linguistique; Informatique; Evolution [q-bio.PE]

Jean-Louis Dessalles. Review of: The evolution of human language: Biolinguistic perspectives (R. Larson et al., CUP, 2010). Language, 2011, 87 (2), pp.411-414. ⟨10.1353/lan.2011.0042⟩. ⟨hal-02286881⟩