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Description
Module Content
This course will review the main issues on how and why language and human communication evolved. Investigations on this topic are highly interdisciplinary and the basics of several relevant areas will be presented: e.g., evolutionary biology, animal communication and cognition, the acquisition of language and development of social cognition in children, computational models and experimental studies of language evolution. Current theories on the evolution and origins of the human language faculty will be critically examined. Since the topic is speculative, the course will also address methodological questions about the kind of evidence needed to support specific theories of language evolution and how they can be gained.
Teaching Delivery
This module is taught by 1 x 1 hr lecture and 1 x 1 hr tutorial.
Indicative Topics
Indicative lecture topics are based on module content in 2023/24, subject to possible changes.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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