The biology of language
By: edited by Stanisław Puppel.
Contributors: Puppel, Stanisław.
Publisher: J. Benjamins
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Biolinguistics -- Congresses.; Language and languages -- Origin -- Congresses.; Historical linguistics -- Congresses.; Human evolution -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"Papers presented and discussed at an international symposium held in December of 1988 at Czerniejewo, near Poznań, Poland"--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Chimps, children, and creoles : the need for caution / Jean Aichison; title: Some problems with an evolutionary view of written language / David Barton; title: Essentialism in language / Bernard H. Bichakjian; title: The invention of the syllable : reflections of a humanist on the biology of language / Robert Payson Creed; title: Genetic classification and the historical method / Angela Della Volpe; title: Animal communication and human language : searching for their evolutionary relationship / Gábor Györi; title: From proto-language to grammar / Martin Hildebrand-Nilshon; title: The biological imperatives in communicative interaction / Mary Ritchie Key; title: Ritual/representation as the semiogenetic precursor of hominid symbol use / Jo Liska; title: Language acquisition and the essentialist-evolutionist debate / David J. Messer; title: Group selection in the biocultural evolution of language : fate of the Neandertals revisited / Richard G. Milo and Duane Quiatt; title: The biology of language / Harvey B. Sarles; title: A possibility of quantum evolution of language / Włodzimierz Sedlak; title: Biological and cultural factors in the evolution of language / David Smillie.