Henri Cohen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Henri Cohen is involved.

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New Perspectives on the Origins of Language

Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen

The question of how language emerged is one of the most fascinating and difficult problems in science. In recent years, a strong resurgence of interest in the emergence of language from an evolutionary perspective has been helped by the convergence of approaches, methods, and ideas from several… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 144] 2013. xvi, 582 pp.

Article

Cohen, Henri 2013 Historical, Darwinian, and current perspectives on the origin(s) of language New Perspectives on the Origins of Language, Lefebvre, Claire, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen (eds.), pp. 3–30 | Article

Language has universally been felt to constitute the attribute that sets humans apart from other species. The quest to understand why and how the capacity to speak came to be has been central to our understanding of the nature of humankind. In this chapter, we focus on the speculations and… read more