Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with classic anthropology, Falk offers a potent challenge to conventional wisdom about the emergence of human language. 25 b&w illustrations.
| Autor: | Falk, Dean |
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| ISBN: | 9780465002191 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Little, Brown and Company |
| Veröffentlicht: | 17.03.2009 |
| Untertitel: | Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language |
| Schlagworte: | Developmental biology FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Speech & Pronunciation |
Dean Falk is Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University. She is the author of Braindance and Primate Diversity, and co-author of The Face in the Mirror. Her "putting the baby down" theory, published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Scientific American, New Scientist, National Geographic, and Newsweek. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.