| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 426 pages) |
| Contents |
Language : a Darwinian adaptation? / Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy and James R. Hurford -- Introduction : the evolution of cooperative communication / Chris Knight -- Comprehension, production and conventionalisation in the origins of language / Robbins Burling -- Cooperation, competition and the evolution of prelinguistic communication / Jason Noble -- Language and hominid politics / Jean-Louis Dessalles -- Secret language use at female initiation : bounding gossiping communities / Camilla Power -- Play as precursor of phonology and syntax / Chris Knight --Introduction : the emergence of phonetic structure / Michael Studdert-Kennedy -- The role of mimesis in infant language development : evidence for phylogeny? / Marilyn M. Vihman and Rory A. Depaolis -- Evolution of speech : the relation between ontogeny and phylogeny / Peter F. Macneilage and Barbara L. Davis -- Evolutionary implications of the particulate principle : imitation and the dissociation of phonetic form from semantic function / Michael Studdert-Kennedy -- Emergence of sound systems through self-organisation / Bart de Boer -- Modelling language-physiology coevolution / Daniel Livingstone and Colin Fyfe -- Introduction : the emergence of syntax / James R. Hurford -- The spandrels of the linguistic genotype / David Lightfoot -- The distinction between sentences and noun phrases : an impediment to language evolution? / Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy -- How protolanguage became language / Derek Bickerton -- Holistic utterances in protolanguage : the link from primates to humans / Alison Wray -- Syntax without natural selection : how compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners / Simon Kirby -- Social transmission favours linguistic generalisation / James R. Hurford -- Words, memes and language evolution / Robert P. Worden -- On the reconstruction of 'proto-world' word order / Frederick J. Newmeyer -- The history, rate and pattern of world linguistic evolution / Mark Pagel |
| Summary |
This book covers the origins and early evolution of language. Its main purpose is to synthesize current thinking on this topic, particularly from a standpoint in theoretical linguistics. It is suitable for students and scholars of human evolution, evolutionary psychology, linguistic anthropology, and general linguistics. It includes contributions from many of the best-known figures in this field |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Origin.
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Anthropological linguistics.
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Human evolution.
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anthropological linguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Anthropological linguistics
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Human evolution
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Language and languages -- Origin
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Hominidae
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Kooperation
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Sprachursprung
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Biolinguistik
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Sprachtheorie
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Taalgenese.
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Linguagem (origem;evolução;aspectos cognitivos)
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Antropologia linguística.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Knight, Chris, 1942-
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Studdert-Kennedy, Michael
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Hurford, James R
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| ISBN |
0511040938 |
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9780511040931 |
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9780511606441 |
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0511606443 |
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9780511046049 |
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0511046049 |
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128042978X |
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9781280429781 |
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1107129192 |
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9781107129191 |
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0511177984 |
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9780511177989 |
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0511325843 |
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9780511325847 |
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