Language evolution
Subtitle: biological, linguistic, and philosophical perspectives
By: Gab́or Győri (ed.).
Contributors: Győri, Gábor.; Language Origins Society.
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Language and languages -- Origin.; Human evolution.; Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at recent meetings of the Language Origins Society.
Table of contents: title: Language and evolution in the Middle Stone Age / Duane Quiatt; title: An ethological reconstruction of the emergence of culture and language during human evolution / Vilmos Csányi; title: Three varieties of selection and their implications for language origins / A. Charles Catania; title: Toward an understanding of the relationship between bipedal walking, encephalization, and language origins / Sonia; title: Ragir; title: On the origins of syntactically structured vocalization in primates / Mária Újhelyi and Pál Buk; title: Symbolic cognition / Gab́or Győri; title: Pinker's language instinct / Robin Allott; title: Emergence of language structure and learnability / Christer Johansson; title: Time and again : displaced reference in the communication of linguistic isolates / Jill P. Morford and Susan Goldin-Meadow; title: Protolanguage and language breakdown / Jur̈gen Tesak; title: Comparative etymology / Chrystelle Maréchal; title: Wittgenstein's "private language argument" and theories of the origin of language / Roger Harris; title: Martin Heidegger on the origin of language in Being and time / Achim Oberst; title: Ernst Cassirer on language origins / Gerhild Tesak-Gutmannsbauer.