剧情简介：Human language is a weird communication system: it has more in common with birdsong than the calls of other primates. In this clear and non-technical overview, Jean Aitchison explores why it evolved and how it developed. She likens the search to a vast prehistoric jigsaw puzzle, in which numerous fragments of evidence must be assembled, some external to language, such as evolut...(展开全部)
作者：Jean Aitchison
出版社：Cambridge University Press
ISBN：9780521467933
