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100 1 $aBickerton, Derek.
245 10 $aLanguage and human behavior /$cDerek Bickerton.
260 $aSeattle :$bUniversity of Washington Press,$c©1995.
300 $a180 pages ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aThe Jessie and John Danz lectures
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index.
505 0 $aWhat language is -- Language and evolution -- Language and intelligence -- Language and consciousness -- Appendix A: Samples of protolanguage.
520 $aAccording to Bickerton, the behavioral sciences have failed to give an adequate account of human nature at least partly because of the conjunction and mutual reinforcement of two widespread beliefs: that language is simply a means of communication and that human intelligence is the result of the rapid growth and unusual size of human brains. Bickerton argues that each of the properties distinguishing human intelligence and consciousness from that of other animals can be shown to derive straightforwardly from properties of language. In essence, language arose as a representational system, not a means of communication or a skill, and not a product of culture but an evolutionary adaptation. The author stresses the necessity of viewing intelligence in evolutionary terms, seeing it not as problem solving but as a way of maintaining homeostasis - the preservation of those conditions most favorable to an organism, the optimal achievable conditions for survival and well-being.
520 8 $aThe term protolanguage is used to describe the stringing together of symbols that prehuman hominids employed. "It did not allow them to turn today's imagination into tomorrow's fact. But it is just this power to transform imagination into fact that distinguishes human behavior from that of our ancestral species, and indeed from that of all other species. It is exactly what enables us to change our behavior, or invent vast ranges of new behavior, practically overnight, with no concomitant genetic changes." Language and Human Behavior should be of interest to anyone in the behavioral and evolutionary sciences and to all those concerned with the role of language in human behavior.
650 0 $aLanguage and languages.
650 0 $aHuman evolution.
650 0 $aPsycholinguistics.
650 12 $aLanguage.
650 22 $aBiological Evolution.
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653 0 $aHuman evolution
653 0 $aLanguage and languages
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830 0 $aJessie and John Danz lectures.
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