How Language Began: Everyone Speaks Languages of Signs

This week we'll discuss chapter 4 of How Language Began, by Daniel Everett.

In this work Everett presents his views about the origin of language -- that it is a culturally evolved tool for communication, not the product of innate biological instinct or pre-wired universal grammar.

If this is your first time attending we meet in the cafe of the Barbican Cinema -- look for for people with copies of How Language Began.

Please read the chapter before attending.