The evolution of human language biolinguistic perspectives
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge New York
Cambridge University Press
c2010
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| Series: | Approaches to the evolution of language
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Table of Contents:
- The faculty of language :; what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? /; Marc D. hauser, Noam Chomsky and W. Tecumseh Fitch
- ; Language architecture.; Some simple evo devo theses :; how true might they be for language? /; Noam Chomsky ;; Your theory of language evolution depends on your theory of language /; Ray Jackendoff ;; Three meaning of "recursion" :; key distinctions for biolinguistics /; W. Tecumseh Fitch ;; On obfuscation, obscurantism, and opacity :; evolving conceptions of the faculty of language /; Marc D. Hauser
- ; Language and interface systems.; Prospection as a cognitive precursor to symbolic communication /; Peter Gardenfors and Mathias Osvath ;; Did language evolve before speech? /; Michael C. Corballis ;; A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language /; Dan Sperber and Gloria Origgi
- ; Biological and neurological foundations.; Plasticity and canalization in the evolution of linguistic communication :; an evolutionary developmental approach /; Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka ;; What is language, that it may have evolved, and what is evolution, that it may apply to language /; Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini ;; The creative capacity of language, in what manner is it unique, and who had it? /; Philip Lieberman ;; Genetics and the evolution of language :; what genetic studies reveal about the evolution of language /; Karin Stromswold
- ; Anthropological context.; A putative role for language in the origin of human consciousness /; Ian Tattersall ;; On two incompatible theories of language evolution /; Derek Bickerton ;; On the evolution of language :; implications of a new and general theory of human origins, properties, and history /; Paul M. Bingham.
