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What is language Why do we have it Where does it come from Why does that matter
Upending centuries of scholarship including most recently Chomsky and Pinker The Language Game shows how people learn to talk not by acquiring fixed meanings and rules but by picking up reusing and recombining countless linguistic fragments in novel ways
Drawing on entertaining and persuasive examples from across the world the book explains
How our shortlived memory copes with the onrushing deluge of sound that is everyday speech
Why it is that language is such a challenge for language scientists but learnt effortlessly by toddlers
Why the languages of the world are so spectacularly variedand why no two people speak quite the same language
Why humans have language but chimps dont
How language gave us a big brain and changed the course of evolution
How language doesnt limit but does shape how we think
And ultimately why what we have come to understand about how language works gives us greater hope for our future
Highly original and convincing a delight to read Daniel Everett
Morten HChristiansen Nick Chater 2022 P Penguin Audio 2022
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