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9780199244843

Language Evolution

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  • ISBN13:

    9780199244843

  • ISBN10:

    0199244847

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-10-09
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

This title includes the following features: Addresses fundamentalquestions of how humans aquired language and how language evolved with new andcompelling arguments

Table of Contents

Preface vii
List of Figures x
List of Tables xi
Notes on the Contributor xii
1. Language Evolution: The Hardest Problem in Science? 1(15)
Morten H. Christiansen and Simon Kirby
2. Language as an Adaptation to the Cognitive Niche 16(22)
Steven Pinker
3. The Language Mosaic and its Evolution 38(20)
James R. Hurford
4. What Can the Field of Linguistics Tell Us About the Origins of Language? 58(19)
Frederick J. Newmeyer
5. Symbol and Structure: A Comprehensive Framework for Language Evolution 77(17)
Derek Bickerton
6. On the Different Origins of Symbols and Grammar 94(17)
Michael Tomasello
7. Universal Grammar and Semiotic Constraints 111(29)
Terrence W. Deacon
8. The Archaeological Evidence of Language Origins: States of Art 140(18)
Iain Davidson
9. What Are the Uniquely Human Components of the Language Faculty? 158(24)
Marc D. Hauser and W. Tecumseh Fitch
10. The Evolving Mirror System: A Neural Basis for Language Readiness 182(19)
Michael A. Arbib
11. From Hand to Mouth: The Gestural Origins of Language 201(18)
Michael C. Corballis
12. The Origin and Subsequent Evolution of Language 219(16)
Robin I.M. Dunbar
13. Launching Language: The Gestural Origin of Discrete Infinity 235(20)
Michael Studdert-Kennedy and Louis Goldstein
14. Motor Control, Speech, and the Evolution of Human Language 255(17)
Philip Lieberman
15. From Language Learning to Language Evolution 272(23)
Simon Kirby and Morten H. Christiansen
16. Grammatical Assimilation 295(22)
Ted Briscoe
17. Language, Learning and Evolution 317(21)
Natalia L. Komarova and Martin A. Nowak
References 338(47)
Index 385

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