
Studies in Language Origins
Volume 2
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 22. August 1991
Book
Hardback
348 pages
978-90-272-3953-2 (ISBN)
Description
The question of language origin has fascinated people for years. The contributions in the present book stem primarely from the papers presented at the Third International Meeting of the Language Origins Society (LOS) held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, June 1988. The contributors approach the problem not only from the viewpoint of linguistics, but also from that of anatomy, physiology, social sciences, physical anthropology, paleoanthropology, paleontology, comparative zoology, general biology, ethology, evolutionary biology and psychology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-3953-2 (9789027239532)
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Content
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