Origin and Evolution of Languages - Approaches, Models, Paradigms - Bernard Laks
Origins and evolution of languages: retrospectives and 1 perspectives
Origin and Evolution of Languages - Approaches, Models, Paradigms - Bernard Laks
Bernard Laks [+]
University of Paris X.
Bernard Laks is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Paris X. He is head of the CNRS laboratory ‘Models, Dynamics, Corpus’. Specialized in phonology and in cognitive linguistics, he has published on general and French phonology, harmonic and connexionist phonology, history of linguistics, sociolinguistics and variationism. His publications include Langage et cognition : l'approche connexionniste (Hermès, 1996), Phonologie autosegmentale : l'accentuatio (Editions du CNRS, 1997), Phonology from phonetics to cognition, co-edited with J. Durand (Oxford University Press, 2002) and Origine de l'homme, origine des langues, co-edited with B. Victorri (Langages N°146, 2002).
Jean-Paul Demoule
University of Paris I
Serge Cleuziou
Université Paris 1
Pierre Encrevé
EHESS
Description
An overview of the present state of research into the original and evolution of languages. Justification of the eclectic approach taken in the chapters, which span various disciplines. Provides a summary of each chapter.