How Long to Read Reflections on language evolution

How Long Does it Take to Read Reflections on language evolution?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 17 minutes to read Reflections on language evolution by Cedric Boeckx

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Description

This essay reflects on the fact that as we learn more about the biological underpinnings of our language faculty, the dominant evolutionary narrative coming out of the linguistic tradition most explicitly oriented towards biology ("biolinguistics") appears increasingly implausible. This text offers ways of opening up linguistic inquiry and fostering interdisciplinarity, taking advantage of new opportunities to provide quantitative, testable hypotheses concerning the complex evolutionary path that led to the modern human language faculty. The essay is structured around three main themes: (i) renewed appreciation for the comparative method applied to cognitive questions, leading to the identification of elementary but fundamental abstractions in non-linguistic species relevant to language; (ii) awareness of the conceptual gaps between disciplines, and the need to carefully link genotype and phenotype without bypassing any "intermediate" levels of description (certainly not the brain); and (iii) adoption of a "philosophical" outlook that puts the complexity of biological entities front and center.

How long is Reflections on language evolution?

Reflections on language evolution by Cedric Boeckx is 76 pages long, and a total of 19,456 words.

This makes it 26% the length of the average book. It also has 24% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Reflections on language evolution Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 46 minutes to read Reflections on language evolution aloud.

What Reading Level is Reflections on language evolution?

Reflections on language evolution is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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