The prehistory of language

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-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
Studies in the evolution of language ; 11.
Subjects:
Historical linguistics.
Language and languages > Origin.
Anthropological linguistics.
historical linguistics.
anthropological linguistics.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Ancient Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Anthropological linguistics
Historical linguistics
Language and languages > Origin
Taalgenese.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Rewards and challenges of multi-perspectival work on the evolution of language and speech / Rudolf Botha
  • Why only humans have language / Robin Dunbar
  • Is sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language? / Luc Steels
  • Holistic communication and the co-evolution of language and music : resurrecting an old idea / Steven Mithen
  • Music as a communicative medium / Ian Cross and Ghofur Eliot Woodruff
  • Cultural niche construction : evolution's cradle of language / John Odling-Smee and Kevin N. Laland
  • Playing with meaning : normative function and structure in play / Sonia Ragir and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
  • The ontogeny and phylogeny of non-verbal deixis / David A. Leavens, Timothy P. Racine, and William D. Hopkins
  • The directed scratch : evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees? / Simone Pika and John C. Mitani
  • The origins of the lexicon : how a word-store evolved / Maggie Tallerman
  • Language : symbolization and beyond / Eric Reuland
  • Grammaticalization from a biolinguistic perspective / Elly van Gelderen
  • Recursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech / Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn
  • Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution) / Bart de Boer
  • Mosaic neurobiology and anatomical plausibility / Wendy K. Wilkins.

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