The evolution of human language
Subtitle: biolinguistic perspectives
By: [edited by] Richard K. Larson, Viviane Déprez, Hiroko Yamakido
Series: Approaches to the evolution of language
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780521516457; 9780521736251
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: introduction; title: The faculty of language :; title: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve?  -- Marc D. hauser, Noam Chomsky and W. Tecumseh Fitch; title: Language architecture.; title: Some simple evo devo theses :; title: how true might they be for language?  -- Noam Chomsky ;; title: Your theory of language evolution depends on your theory of language  -- Ray Jackendoff ;; title: Three meaning of "recursion" :; title: key distinctions for biolinguistics  -- W. Tecumseh Fitch ;; title: On obfuscation, obscurantism, and opacity :; title: evolving conceptions of the faculty of language  -- Marc D. Hauser; title: Language and interface systems.; title: Prospection as a cognitive precursor to symbolic communication  -- Peter Gärdenfors and Mathias Osvath ;; title: Did language evolve before speech?  -- Michael C. Corballis ;; title: A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language  -- Dan Sperber and Gloria Origgi; title: Biological and neurological foundations.; title: Plasticity and canalization in the evolution of linguistic communication :; title: an evolutionary developmental approach  -- Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka ;; title: What is language, that it may have evolved, and what is evolution, that it may apply to language  -- Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini ;; title: The creative capacity of language, in what manner is it unique, and who had it?  -- Philip Lieberman ;; title: Genetics and the evolution of language :; title: what genetic studies reveal about the evolution of language  -- Karin Stromswold; title: Anthropological context.; title: A putative role for language in the origin of human consciousness  -- Ian Tattersall ;; title: On two incompatible theories of language evolution  -- Derek Bickerton ;; title: On the evolution of language :; title: implications of a new and general theory of human origins, properties, and history -- Paul M. Bingham.