TY  - BOOK
AU  - McNeill,David
TI  - How Language Began: Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution 
T2  - Approaches to the Evolution of Language
SN  - 9781139108669 (ebook)
AV  - P116 .M455 2012
U1  - 401 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Speech and gesture
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together into a system that all humans possess. Nearly all theorizing about the origins of language either ignores gesture, views it as an add-on or supposes that language began in gesture and was later replaced by speech. David McNeill challenges the popular 'gesture-first' theory that language first emerged in a gesture-only form and proposes a groundbreaking theory of the evolution of language which explains how speech and gesture became unified
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139108669
ER  -