The prehistory of language
By: edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight.
Contributors: Botha, Rudolf P.; Knight, Chris, 1942-
Series: Studies in the evolution of language -- 11; Oxford linguistics; Oxford linguistics; Studies in the evolution of language -- 11.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780199545872; 9780199545889
Subjects: Historical linguistics; Language and languages -- Origin; Anthropological linguistics; Taalgenese
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-334) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Rewards and challenges of multi-perspectival work on the evolution of language and speech  -- Rudolf Botha; title: Why only humans have language  -- Robin Dunbar; title: Is sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language?  -- Luc Steels; title: Holistic communication and the co-evolution of language and music : resurrecting an old idea  -- Steven Mithen; title: Music as a communicative medium  -- Ian Cross and Ghofur Eliot Woodruff; title: Cultural niche construction : evolution's cradle of language  -- John Odling-Smee and Kevin N. Laland; title: Playing with meaning : normative function and structure in play  -- Sonia Ragir and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh; title: The ontogeny and phylogeny of non-verbal deixis  -- David A. Leavens, Timothy P. Racine, and William D. Hopkins; title: The directed scratch : evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees?  -- Simone Pika and John C. Mitani; title: The origins of the lexicon : how a word-store evolved  -- Maggie Tallerman; title: Language : symbolization and beyond  -- Eric Reuland; title: Grammaticalization from a biolinguistic perspective  -- Elly van Gelderen; title: Recursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech  -- Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn; title: Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution)  -- Bart de Boer; title: Mosaic neurobiology and anatomical plausibility -- Wendy K. Wilkins.