Language evolution / edited by Morten H. Christiansen, Simon Kirby.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Studies in the evolution of language ; 3Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Description: xvii, 395 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0199244847 (pbk.)
  • 0199244839
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P 140 .L257 2003
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Contents:
Language evolution : the hardest problem in science? / Morten H. Christiansen and Simon Kirby -- Language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche / Steven Pinker -- The language mosaic and its evolution / James R. Hurford -- What can the field of linguistics tell us about the origins of language? / Frederick J. Newmeyer -- Symbol and structure : a comprehensive framework for language evolution / Derek Bickerton -- On the different origins of symbols and grammar / Michael Tomasello -- Universal grammar and semiotic constraints / Terrence W. Deacon -- The archaeological evidence of language origins : states of art / Iain Davidson -- What are the uniquely human components of the language faculty? / Marc D. Hauser and W. Tecumseh Fitch -- The evolving mirror system : a neural basis for language readiness / Michael A. Arbib -- From hand to mouth : the gestural origins of language / Michael C. Corballis -- The origin and subsequent evolution of language / Robin I.M. Dunbar -- Launching language : the gestural origin of discrete infinity / Michael Studdert-Kennedy and Louis Goldstein -- Motor control, speech, and the evolution of human language / Philip Lieberman --From language learning to language evolution / Simon Kirby and Morten H. Christiansen -- Grammatical assimilation / Ted Briscoe -- Language, learning and evolution / Natalia L. Komarova and Martin A. Nowak.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-383) and index.

Language evolution : the hardest problem in science? / Morten H. Christiansen and Simon Kirby -- Language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche / Steven Pinker -- The language mosaic and its evolution / James R. Hurford -- What can the field of linguistics tell us about the origins of language? / Frederick J. Newmeyer -- Symbol and structure : a comprehensive framework for language evolution / Derek Bickerton -- On the different origins of symbols and grammar / Michael Tomasello -- Universal grammar and semiotic constraints / Terrence W. Deacon -- The archaeological evidence of language origins : states of art / Iain Davidson -- What are the uniquely human components of the language faculty? / Marc D. Hauser and W. Tecumseh Fitch -- The evolving mirror system : a neural basis for language readiness / Michael A. Arbib -- From hand to mouth : the gestural origins of language / Michael C. Corballis -- The origin and subsequent evolution of language / Robin I.M. Dunbar -- Launching language : the gestural origin of discrete infinity / Michael Studdert-Kennedy and Louis Goldstein -- Motor control, speech, and the evolution of human language / Philip Lieberman --From language learning to language evolution / Simon Kirby and Morten H. Christiansen -- Grammatical assimilation / Ted Briscoe -- Language, learning and evolution / Natalia L. Komarova and Martin A. Nowak.

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