The Infancy of Speech and the Speech of Infancy

For many centuries scientists and philosophers have endeavoured to solve the baffling problem of human language. First published in 1949, Dr Stein had been fascinated by this problem and collected an enormous amount of data from past and present ages which, when viewed together, shed light upon the origin, evolution and meaning of human speech.

Leopold Stein

Foreword. 1. Short History of the Problem 2. The Forerunners 3. The Human Stock 4. Unfledged Language 5. New-Fledged Language 6. Full-Fledged Language. Index.