The Genesis of Language
A Different Judgement of Evidence
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2011
XIV, 278 pages
978-3-11-084753-6 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2011
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
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de Gruyter Mouton
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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8,60 MB
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978-3-11-084753-6 (9783110847536)
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Content
- Intro
- Part I. Neurobiological advances
- Evolutionary neurobiology and the origin of language as a cognitive adaptation
- Language development and biological programming: behavioral and electrophysiological indices
- Primate communication, comparative neurology, and the origin of language reexamined
- Part II. Perceptual bases
- Grasping and the gesture theory of language origins
- Ways to accelerate progress in glottogonic research
- Implication and the evolution of language
- Perceptual bases for the evolution of speech
- Part III. Fossil evidence
- Neoteny and language evolution
- Language evolution and paedomorphosis
- Language evolution and paedomorphosis. A reply to Jan Wind
- Brain size and the evolution of language
- Laryngeal descent in 40.000 year old fossils
- Part IV. Linguistic evidence
- Live speech and preverbal communication
- On linguistic territoriality, iconicity and language evolution
- Vestiges of primeval phonology in certain ancient languages
- The synchronous development and kinesis: Further evidence
- Behavioral flexibility and the evolution of language
- Index
