Studies in Language Origins

1. Notes on contributors; 2. Introduction: Why study the origin of language? (by Raffler-Engel, Walburga von); 3. The origin of language according to the Bible (by Miles, H. Lyn White); 4. Relationships of language evolution to hominid population expansion from lower paleolithic times onward (by Hewes, Gordon W.); 5. The origin of human language (by Chiarelli, Brunetto); 6. On the origins of language and self-consciousness (by Jonker, Abraham); 7. Evolution of the cerebellum: Did it contribute to the evolution of language? (by Leiner, Henrietta C.); 8. Are male and female Homo sapiens selected for different auditory stimuli? (by Daniel, Hal J.); 9. Defining language (by Wescott, Roger W.); 10. Processes of communication in the origins of language (by Tomasello, Michael); 11. On dating the origin of the modern form of language (by Fidelholtz, James L.); 12. Signing & speaking: competitors, alternatives, or incompatibles? (by Stokoe, William C.); 13. The motor theory of language (by Allott, Robin); 14. A world map of hypothesized language affiliations (by Key, Mary Ritchie); 15. Paleolexicology: A tool toward language origins (by Bengtson, John D.); 16. Evolutionary patterns in linguistics (by Bichakjian, Bernard H.); 17. Some observations on evolutionary concepts in current linguistics (by Dimmendaal, Gerrit J.); 18. On metaphoric communication as the original protolanguage (by Lerman, Claire Lindegren); 19. Semantic polarity and the origin of language (by Aphek, Edna); 20. Desiderata for an evolutionary account of the origins of language (by Smillie, David); 21. Intonation and the phonemic inventory (by Rolfe, Leonard); 22. Paleofiction and language origins (by Kirstein, Boni); 23. Name index; 24. Subject index