Language Evolution (Studies in the Evolution of Language)

✍ Scribed by Morten H. Christiansen, Simon Kirby (Editors)

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 415
• Series: Studies in the Evolution of Language
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The leading scholars in the rapidly growing field of language evolution give readable accounts of their theories on the origins of language and reflect on the most important current issues and debates. As well as providing a guide to their own published research in this area they highlight what they see as the most relevant research of others. The authors come from a wide range of disciplines involved in language evolution including linguistics, cognitive science, computational science, primatology, and archaeology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
......Page 1
Title Page
......Page 4
Copyright
......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 11
List of Tables......Page 12
Notes on the Contributors......Page 13
1. Language Evolution: The Hardest Problem in Science? -
Morten H. Christiansen and Simon Kirby......Page 20
2. Language as an Adaptation to the Cognitive Niche - Steven Pinker......Page 35
3. The Language Mosaic and its Evolution - James R. Hurford......Page 57
4. What Can the Field of Linguistics Tell Us About the Origins of Language? - Frederick J. Newmeyer......Page 77
5. Symbol and Structure: A Comprehensive Framework for Language Evolution - Derek Bickerton......Page 96
6. On the Different Origins of Symbols and Grammar - Michael Tomasello......Page 113
7. Universal Grammar and Semiotic Constraints - Terrence W Deacon......Page 130
8. The Archaeological Evidence of Language Origins: States of Art - Iain Davidson......Page 159
9. What Are the Uniquely Human Components of the Language Faculty? - Marc D. Hauser and W. Tecumseh Fitch......Page 177
10. The Evolving Mirror System: A Neural Basis for Language Readiness - Michael A. Arbib......Page 201
11. From Hand to Mouth: The Gestural Origins of Language - Michael C. Corballis......Page 220
12. The Origin and Subsequent Evolution of Language - Robin I. M. Dunbar......Page 238
13. Launching Language: The Gestural Origin of Discrete Infinity - Michael Studdert-Kennedy and Louis Goldstein......Page 254
14. Motor Control, Speech, and the Evolutionof Human Language - Philip Lieberman......Page 274
15. From Language Learning to Language Evolution - Simon Kirby and Morten H. Christiansen......Page 291
16. Grammatical Assimilation - Ted Briscoe......Page 314
17. Language, Learning and Evolution - Natalia L. Komarova and Martin A. Nowak......Page 336
References......Page 357
Index......Page 404
Back Cover
......Page 415

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Происхождение и эволюция языка;