Finding Our Tongues : Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language, Hardcove...

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Finding Our Tongues : Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language, Hardcover by Falk, Dean, ISBN 0465002196, ISBN-13 9780465002191, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK The majority of research on how language began has been based on the assumption that men have been the prime evolutionary movers because of their hypothetical focus on hunting, tool production, and warfare. Based on cutting-edge neuroscience, child development literature, and classic anthropology, Falk (anthropology, Florida State U.) proposes a radically different theory: mother-infant interaction and "motherese"--also known as baby talk or musical speech--led to the development of human speech, and from that, to the development of music and art. In the process, she demonstrates that motherese exists in all modern societies, that it is mothers worldwide who help babies learn language, and that observations of motherese today can tell us much about the emergence of language among our species. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

• ISBN: 9780465002191
• Condition: Fine

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