How Long to Read The Nature and Origin of Language

How Long Does it Take to Read The Nature and Origin of Language?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 50 minutes to read The Nature and Origin of Language by Denis Bouchard

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language then evolved. Its four parts are concerned with different views on the emergence of language, with what language is, how it evolved in the human brain, and finally how this process led to the properties of language. Part I considers the main approaches to the subject and how far language evolved culturally or genetically. Part II argues that language is a system of signs and considers how these elements first came together in the brain. Part III examines the evidence for brain mechanisms to allow the formation of signs. Part IV shows how the book's explanation of language origins and evolution is not only consistent with the complex properties of languages but provides the basis for a theory of syntax that offers insights into the learnability of language and to the nature of constructions that have defied decades of linguistic analysis, including including subject-verb inversion in questions, existential constructions, and long-distance dependencies. Denis Bouchard's outstandingly original account will interest linguists of all persuasions as well as cognitive scientists and others interested in the evolution of language.

How long is The Nature and Origin of Language?

The Nature and Origin of Language by Denis Bouchard is 404 pages long, and a total of 102,616 words.

This makes it 136% the length of the average book. It also has 125% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Nature and Origin of Language Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 20 minutes to read The Nature and Origin of Language aloud.

What Reading Level is The Nature and Origin of Language?

The Nature and Origin of Language is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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