Studies in Language Origins

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Walburga von Raffler-Engel Jan Wind Abraham Jonker(Editor)

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Published on 22. August 1991

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STUDIES IN LANGUAGE ORIGINS
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Notes on contributors
Introduction: Why study the origin of language?
The origin of language according to the Bible
Summary
Introduction
2. What's at stake in the fight over "creation science"?
3. What is creation science?
4. What is the biblical picture of creation?
5. What's at stake for creationists?
6. What's at stake for others?
7. Conclusion
The development of symbolic communication in apes and early hominids
Summary
1. Introduction
2. Project Chantek
3. Vocabulary acquisition
4. Discourse ability
5. Pointing and reference
6. Semantic domain
7. Displaced reference
8. Foot signing
9. Deception
10. Symbolic play
11. Language origins
Acknowledgments
REFERENCES
Relationships of language evolution to hominid population expansion from Lower Paleolithic times onward
Summary
REFERENCES
The origin of human language
Summary
Introduction
2. A naturalistic description of language
3. Language as an acquired characteristic
4. The influence of the environment in the development of the brain and the origin of Broca's area
REFERENCES
On the origins of language and self-consciousness
Summary
1. Introduction
2. Human communication and self-consciousness
3. Chimpanzee communication
4. Chimpanzee 'self-consciousness'
5. The emergence of speech and self-consciousness
6. Conclusion
NOTE
REFERENCES
Evolution of the cerebellum: Did it contribute to the evolution of language?
Summary
1. Introduction
2. Evolution of the cerebellum in apes and humans
3. Evolution of cerebeUar projections to the cerebral cortex
4. Evolution of cerebellar "learning loops
5. Summary and conclusions
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES
Are male and female Homo sapiens selected for different auditory stimuli?
Summary
1. Introduction
2. Methods and procedures
3. Results
4. Discussion
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES
APPENDIX
Defining language
Summary
NOTES
REFERENCES
Processes of communication in the origins of language
Summary
1. Introduction
2. Intentional communication
3. Symbolic communication
4. Linguistic communication
5. Conclusion
REFERENCES
On dating the origin of the modern form of language
Summary
1. Introduction
2. Some groundwork
3. Physical changes in the fossil record and their interpretation
4. The evidence
5. Summary and conclusions
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES
Signing & speaking: competitors, alternatives, or incompatibles?
Summary
REFERENCES
The motor theory of language
Summary
PART I
PART II
1. Elements of mosaic evolution
2. Selective value of language
3. Categorical perception of speech sounds
4. Cross-modal components in speech, action and vision
5. Innate and acquired motor programs
6. Evolution and ontogeny of motor/speech neural connections
7. Motor control and vision
8. Motor control and articulation
9. Motor programs and elementary motor units
10. Motor control research - biological and robotic
11. Concluding remarks
REFERENCES
A world map of hypothesized language affiliations
Summary
1. The problem
2. A world map
3. Conclusions
NOTES
REFERENCES
Bibliography of map sites
Paleolexicology: a tool toward language origins
Summary
APPENDIX
REFERENCES
Evolutionary patterns in linguistics
Summary
1. From typology to phytogeny
2. The evolution of grammatical structures
2.1 The Sumerian branching pattern
2.2 The Hamito-Semitic branching pattern
2.3 Branching patterns in Kartvelian and other Caucasian languages
2.4 Branching pattern in Uralic languages
2.5 The Dravidian branching pattern
2.6 The Altaic branching pattern
3. The evolution of subordination
3.1 From verbal roots to relatives in Sumerian
3.2 From verbals to relatives in Hamito-Semitic
3.3 Subordination in Caucasian languages
3.4 Subordination in Uralic languages
3.5 The Dravidian dynamics
3.6 Altaic subordination: from cultismo to colloquialism
3.7 The development of subordination: an evolutionary pattern
4. Aspect vs tense
4.1 Aspect in Sumerian
4.2 From aspect to tense in Hamito-Semitic
4.3 From aspect to tense in South Caucasian languages
4.4 From aspect to tense in Uralic
4.5 Verbal distinctions in Dravidian
4.6 From aspect to tense in Altaic
4.7 The evolution of verbal distinctions
5. From evolutionary patterns to language evolution
REFERENCES
Some observations on evolutionary conceptsin current linguistics
Summary
1. Evolutionary concepts and the study of language: some earlier attempts
2. A closer look at the Brown and Witkowski hypothesis
2.1. The historical-comparative (counter-)evidence
2.2. The empirical basis: synchronic (counter-) evidence
3. An alternative account: language and cognition
4. Some conclusions and prospects
NOTES
REFERENCES
On metaphoric communication as the original protolanguage
Summary
1. Introduction
2. What is metaphor?
3. The metaphoric proposition in discourse
4. Empirical studies of metaphor
5. Metaphor in language acquisition, and in aphasia
6. Metaphor in predominantly oral cultures
7. Conceptual metaphors in language
7. Speculation on the socio-cultural context of the original language
8. The language of emotion and 'problematic topics'
9. Metaphor in television public affairs analysis
10. Metaphoric monologue
11. The language of thinking
NOTES
REFERENCES
Semantic polarity and the origin of language
Summary
1. Introduction: the traditional view of semantic polarity
2. Typical examples of the traditional concept of semantic polarity
3. Semantic polarity and the origin of language: an alternative view
4. Semantic polarity and the origin of language: man and his environment
NOTES
REFERENCES
Desiderata for an evolutionary account of the origins of language
Summary
1. Introduction
2. Paleolanguage is an old system
3. Paleolanguage was a universal system
4. Paleolanguage originates as a system of communication
5. Paleolanguage was autocatalytic in nature
REFERENCES
Intonation and the phonemic inventory
Summary
1. Intonation and the speech flow
2. Voiced vowels
3. Voiced vs. voiceless phonemes
4. Transitions
5. Functions of voicing
6. The descent of the larynx
7. Psychological motivations for speech production
8. Conclusion
NOTE
REFERENCES
Palaeofiction and language origins
Summary
1. Introduction
2. Palaeofiction seen from a scientific viewpoint
3. The opposite stance
4. Science as measuring stick
5. Functions of palaeofiction
6. Towards better defining palaeofiction
7. The role of language in palaeofiction
8. Burgess' creating language for primitive man in 'Quest for Fire'
9. Brief overview of extant palaeofiction
10. Towards greater consistency in palaeofiction: discussing J.M. Auel 1980, 1982 & 1985
11. Conclusion
REFERENCES
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