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The Evolutionary emergence of language : social function and the origins of linguistic form / edited by Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, James R. Hurford

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 426 pages)
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Knight, Chris, 1942-, Studdert-Kennedy, Michael, and Hurford, James R.
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English.
Contents
Language : a Darwinian adaptation? / Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy and James R. Hurford -- Introduction : the evolution of cooperative communication / Chris Knight -- Comprehension, production and conventionalisation in the origins of language / Robbins Burling -- Cooperation, competition and the evolution of prelinguistic communication / Jason Noble -- Language and hominid politics / Jean-Louis Dessalles -- Secret language use at female initiation : bounding gossiping communities / Camilla Power -- Play as precursor of phonology and syntax / Chris Knight --Introduction : the emergence of phonetic structure / Michael Studdert-Kennedy -- The role of mimesis in infant language development : evidence for phylogeny? / Marilyn M. Vihman and Rory A. Depaolis -- Evolution of speech : the relation between ontogeny and phylogeny / Peter F. Macneilage and Barbara L. Davis -- Evolutionary implications of the particulate principle : imitation and the dissociation of phonetic form from semantic function / Michael Studdert-Kennedy -- Emergence of sound systems through self-organisation / Bart de Boer -- Modelling language-physiology coevolution / Daniel Livingstone and Colin Fyfe -- Introduction : the emergence of syntax / James R. Hurford -- The spandrels of the linguistic genotype / David Lightfoot -- The distinction between sentences and noun phrases : an impediment to language evolution? / Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy -- How protolanguage became language / Derek Bickerton -- Holistic utterances in protolanguage : the link from primates to humans / Alison Wray -- Syntax without natural selection : how compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners / Simon Kirby -- Social transmission favours linguistic generalisation / James R. Hurford -- Words, memes and language evolution / Robert P. Worden -- On the reconstruction of 'proto-world' word order / Frederick J. Newmeyer -- The history, rate and pattern of world linguistic evolution / Mark Pagel.
Summary
This book covers the origins and early evolution of language. Its main purpose is to synthesize current thinking on this topic, particularly from a standpoint in theoretical linguistics. It is suitable for students and scholars of human evolution, evolutionary psychology, linguistic anthropology, and general linguistics. It includes contributions from many of the best-known figures in this field.
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0511040938 (electronic bk.)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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