This title includes the following features: Addresses fundamentalquestions of how humans aquired language and how language evolved with new andcompelling arguments
Preface
vii
List of Figures
x
List of Tables
xi
Notes on the Contributor
xii
1. Language Evolution: The Hardest Problem in Science?
1
(15)
Morten H. Christiansen and Simon Kirby
2. Language as an Adaptation to the Cognitive Niche
16
(22)
Steven Pinker
3. The Language Mosaic and its Evolution
38
(20)
James R. Hurford
4. What Can the Field of Linguistics Tell Us About the Origins of Language?
58
(19)
Frederick J. Newmeyer
5. Symbol and Structure: A Comprehensive Framework for Language Evolution
77
(17)
Derek Bickerton
6. On the Different Origins of Symbols and Grammar
94
(17)
Michael Tomasello
7. Universal Grammar and Semiotic Constraints
111
(29)
Terrence W. Deacon
8. The Archaeological Evidence of Language Origins: States of Art
140
(18)
Iain Davidson
9. What Are the Uniquely Human Components of the Language Faculty?
158
(24)
Marc D. Hauser and W. Tecumseh Fitch
10. The Evolving Mirror System: A Neural Basis for Language Readiness
182
(19)
Michael A. Arbib
11. From Hand to Mouth: The Gestural Origins of Language
201
(18)
Michael C. Corballis
12. The Origin and Subsequent Evolution of Language
219
(16)
Robin I.M. Dunbar
13. Launching Language: The Gestural Origin of Discrete Infinity
235
(20)
Michael Studdert-Kennedy and Louis Goldstein
14. Motor Control, Speech, and the Evolution of Human Language
255
(17)
Philip Lieberman
15. From Language Learning to Language Evolution
272
(23)
Simon Kirby and Morten H. Christiansen
16. Grammatical Assimilation
295
(22)
Ted Briscoe
17. Language, Learning and Evolution
317
(21)
Natalia L. Komarova and Martin A. Nowak
References
338
(47)
Index
385
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