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We first address diverse criteria on what a theory of language evolution should explain, focusing on six divides: evolution did/did not yield a Universal Grammar; brain evolution is/is not important; language is to be viewed as speech or multimodal communication; language evolution is/is not best un...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lefebvre, Claire, Comrie, Bernard, 1947-, Cohen, Henri, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 144.
Temas:
Language and languages > Origin.
Langage et langues > Origines.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 General perspectives and issues on language origins
  • Historical, Darwinian, and current perspectives on the origin(s) of language / Henri Cohen
  • The origin of language as seen by eighteenth-century philosophy / Sylvain Auroux
  • Cognitive and social aspects of language origins / Alan Barnard
  • pt. 2 At the roots of language
  • Reconstructed fossil vocal tracts and the production of speech: Phylogenetic and ontogenetic considerations / Jean-Luc Schwartz
  • Paleoanthropology and language / Ian Tattersall
  • Material culture and language / Christopher Stuart Henshilwood
  • Gestural theory of the origins of language / Michael C. Corballis
  • pt. 3 Communication and language origins
  • Primate communication / Klaus Zuberbuhler
  • FoxP2 and vocalization / Stephanie A. White
  • Brain lateralization and the emergence of language / Cyril Courtin
  • Sensorimotor constraints and the organization of sound patterns / Lucie Menard
  • Symbol grounding and the origin of language: From show to tell / Bernard St-Louis
  • pt. 4 Linguistic views on language origins
  • Sound patterns and conceptual content of the first words / Peter F. MacNeilage
  • Brave new words / Alain Matthey de l'Etang
  • On the origin of Grammar / Tania Kuteva
  • Arbitrary signs and the emergence of language / Denis Bouchard
  • On the relevance of pidgins and creoles in the debate on the origins of language / Claire Lefebvre
  • pt. 5 Computational modeling of language origins
  • Modeling cultural evolution: Language acquisition as multiple-cue integration / Morten H. Christiansen
  • How language emerges in situated embodied interactions / Luc Steels
  • Emergence of communication and language in evolving robots / Stefano Nolfi
  • Evolving a bridge from praxis to language / Michael A. Arbib.

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