The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

How did language start? – From recreating nature sounds and using gestures to represent reality, the languages we speak today are a result of an ever-evolving process that started thousands of years ago. In this book, Morten H Christiansen and Nick Chater explore and try to recreate how the very first words came to be and how they progressed into the complex languages we speak nowadays. Recommended by The Language Lab.