The prehistory of language / edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight.

Prominent linguists, cognitive scientists, archaeologists, primatologists, anthropologists, and natural scientists examine issues and advances in understanding language evolution, ranging from the co-evolution of language and music to the evolutionary biology of language. An important and stylish co...

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Other Authors: Botha, Rudolf P., Knight, Chris, 1942-
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Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
Studies in the evolution of language ; 11.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-334) and index. 
505 0 0 |g Introduction:  |t Rewards and challenges of multi-perspectival work on the evolution of language and speech /  |r Rudolf Botha --  |t Why only humans have language /  |r Robin Dunbar --  |t Is sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language? /  |r Luc Steels --  |t Holistic communication and the co-evolution of language and music : resurrecting an old idea /  |r Steven Mithen --  |t Music as a communicative medium /  |r Ian Cross and Ghofur Eliot Woodruff --  |t Cultural niche construction : evolution's cradle of language /  |r John Odling-Smee and Kevin N. Laland --  |t Playing with meaning : normative function and structure in play /  |r Sonia Ragir and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh --  |t The ontogeny and phylogeny of non-verbal deixis /  |r David A. Leavens, Timothy P. Racine, and William D. Hopkins --  |t The directed scratch : evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees? /  |r Simone Pika and John C. Mitani --  |t The origins of the lexicon : how a word-store evolved /  |r Maggie Tallerman --  |t Language : symbolization and beyond /  |r Eric Reuland --  |t Grammaticalization from a biolinguistic perspective /  |r Elly van Gelderen --  |t Recursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech /  |r Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn --  |t Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution) /  |r Bart de Boer --  |t Mosaic neurobiology and anatomical plausibility /  |r Wendy K. Wilkins. 
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