The evolutionary emergence of language : evidence and inference / edited by Rudolf Botha, Martin Everaert.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Oxford linguistics.
Studies in the evolution of language ; 17. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: evidence and inference in the study of language evolution / Rudolf Botha and Martin Everaert
- What is special about the human language faculty and how did it get that way? / Stephen R. Anderson
- Language has evolved to depend on multiple-cue integration / Morten H. Christiansen
- Homesign as a way-station between co-speech gesture and sign language: the evolution of segmentation and sequencing / Ann Senghas, Asli Özyürek, and Susan Goldin-Meadow
- Kin selection, pedagogy, and linguistic complexity: whence protolanguage? / Maggie Tallerman
- Neanderthal linguistic abilities: an alternative view / Katharine MacDonald and Wil Roebroeks
- The archaeology of number concept and its implications for the evolution of language / Thomas Wynn, Frederick L. Coolidge, and Karenleigh A. Overmann
- The evolution of semantics: sharing conceptual domains / Peter Gärdenfors
- Speech-gesture links in the ontogeny and phylogeny of gestural communication / Jacques Vauclair and Hélène Cochet
- Exploring the gaps between primate calls and human language / Alban Lemasson, Karim Ouattara, and Klaus Zuberbühler
- Talking about the apes, birds, bees, and other living creatures: language evolution in light of comparative animal behaviour / Kathleen R. Gibson
- FoxP2 and deep homology in the evolution of birdsong and human language / Alan Langus, Jana Petri, Marina Nespor, and Constance Scharff
- Genetics, evolution, and the innateness of language / Karl C. Diller and Rebecca L. Cann.