There are some 6,500 different languages in the world. This book investigates why diversity arose, how it relates to the origins and evolution of language and culture, and whether the uneven distribution of human languages may be linked with patterns of human geography and history. Daniel Nettle draws on work in anthropology, linguistics, geography, archeology, and evolutionary science to explain linguistic diversity.
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`A panopoly of possible microprocesses of language variation are explored painstakingly and with great ingenuity by the author ... This book is a mine of geolinguistic and sociolinguistic data, presented in a plain and captivating style.' Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, TREE, vol 15 no 4 April 2000
`His conclusions, while by no means earth-shaking in their implications, are eminently reasonable and manage to tie together a number of strands of thought in an original and creative way ... a valuable contribution to our understanding of how and why languages have changed over time.' F Newmeyer, Journal of Linguistics
`His conclusions, while by no means earth-shaking in their implications, are eminently reasonable and manage to tie together a number of strands of thought in an original and creative way ... a valuable contribution to our understanding of how and why languages have changed over time.' F Newmeyer, Journal of Linguistics
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Daniel Nettle is at Merton College, Oxford.
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Humankind today speaks about 6,500 different, mutually unintelligible languages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
linguistic pool, areal convergence, functional selection, mean growing season, language density, phonological inventory, stock diversity, imperfect learning, phonetic space, phylogenetic diversity, social selection, neutral model, language diversity, ecological regime, competing motivations, threshold problems, endangered languages, first formant, inventory size, language transmission, linguistic evolution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, Old World, South America, West Africa, Colonized Areas, North America, United States, Central America, New World, Third World, British Isles New!
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Humankind today speaks about 6,500 different, mutually unintelligible languages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
linguistic pool, areal convergence, functional selection, mean growing season, language density, phonological inventory, stock diversity, imperfect learning, phonetic space, phylogenetic diversity, social selection, neutral model, language diversity, ecological regime, competing motivations, threshold problems, endangered languages, first formant, inventory size, language transmission, linguistic evolution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, Old World, South America, West Africa, Colonized Areas, North America, United States, Central America, New World, Third World, British Isles New!
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- Patterns of Sounds (Cambridge Studies in Speech Science and Communication) by Maddieson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Vowel Perception and Production (Oxford Psychology Series) by B. S. Rosner in Back Matter
- Unesco General History of Africa (African Writers) (v. 4) by Unesco in Back Matter
- Decline of the Celtic Languages by Victor Edward Durkacz in Back Matter
- The Rise and Fall of Languages by R. M. W. Dixon in Back Matter
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- Human Evolutionary Psychology by Louise Barrett in Front Matter, page 350, and Back Matter
- Speak: A Short History of Languages by Tore Janson on page 282, and Back Matter
- Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages by Daniel Nettle on page 40, and Back Matter
- Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages by Daniel Nettle on page 40, and Back Matter
- Speak: A Short History of Languages by Tore Janson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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