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The Evolutionary emergence of language : social function and the origins of linguistic form /
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, an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.