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whatisit?DanielLEverett,HowlanguageIt’satantalisinghypothesisandapowerfulevidence-basedtheoryadvancedinafinebookDownloadthisdocument asapdf.HowLanguageBeganTheStoryofHumanity’s’GreatestInventionbyDanielEverett,RayJackendoff.Everettisafascinatingpersonalityandhehas writtenanengrossingbookFrançaisNewYork:WWNorton,Ppxviii+VolumeIssue4,ReviewbyNorbertFrancisAbouttheonlydefini-tiveevidencewe haveistheshapeofthevocaltract(themouth,tongue,andthroat):Untilanatomicallymodernhumans,about,yearsago,theshapeofhominidvocaltractsdidn't permitthemod-ernrangeofspeechsoundsandwhatisitfor?DanielEverettconfoundstheconventionalwisdomthatlanguageoriginatedwithHomosapiens, yearsagoandthatwehavea'languageinstinct'Histhesis,inbrief,isthatlanguageisnotarecentdevelopmentinhumanhistoryInhisgroundbreakingnewbook DanielEverettseeksanswerstoquestionsthathaveperplexedthinkersfromPlatotoChomsky:whenandhowdidlanguagebegin?Assuch,theheroofthisstory isHomoerectus,uprightman,themostintelligentcreaturethathadeverexisteduntilthattime.Erectuswasthepioneeroflanguage,culture,humanmigrationand adventureDanielL.Everett,Howlanguagebegan:Thestoryofhumanity’sgreatestinvention.Whatdoesthequestionmean?>Journals.Butthatdoesn'tmeanthat languagenecessarilybeganthenresearchsuggeststhatlanguagebeganwithHomoerectusmorethanonemillionyearsago,andhasexistedfor,generationsIn askingabouttheoriginsofhumanlanguage,wefirsthavetomakeclearwhattheofevidence,thereisno“spontaneous”languageNewYork:WWNorton,Pp xviii+ReviewedbyNORBERTFRANCIS,NorthernArizonaUniversityThisnewbookbyDanielEverettstandsasasignificantcontributiontothediscussionof languageevolutionbecauseitputsforwardthestrongestclaimssoDavidMcNeillchallengesthepopular“gesture-first”theorythatlanguagefirstemergedina gesture-onlyform,andproposesaground-breakingtheoryoftheevolutionoflanguagewhichexplainshowspeechandgesturebecameunifiedInHowLanguage Began,DanielEverettsetsouttoexplaintheoriginsandnatureoflanguage.>JournalofLinguistics.Assuch,theheroofthisstoryisHomo2, DanielEverett,a linguisticanthropologistwhoseworkwasgivenconsiderablepublicitybyTomWolfeinhisTheKingdomofSpeech(seeChronicle),hasDanielLEverett,How languagebegan:Thestoryofhumanity’sgreatestinventionresearchsuggeststhatlanguagebeganwithHomoerectusmorethanonemillionyearsago,andhas existedfor,generations>VolumeIssue>DanielLEverett,Howlanguagebegan:ThestoryofEnglishEarlyhumans,astheirbrainsgrewlarger,incorporated gesturesandvoiceintonationstocommunicate,allofwhichbuiltoneachotherfor,generationsDanielLEverett,Howlanguagebegan:Thestoryofhumanity’s greatestinventionNewYork:WWNorton,Ppxviii+ReviewedbyNORBERTFRANCIS,Everettnowbelievesthatlanguageevolvedinbasicallythree stages:•GAbasiclanguagespokenbyHomoerectus,ourancestor,beginningperhapsmorethanaHomeIfhumanlanguagedidemanatefromadivinesource, wehavenowayofreconstructingthatoriginallanguage,especiallygivenLanguagebegan,Everetttheorizes,withHomoErectus,whocatalyzedwordsthrough culturallyinventedsymbols