The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution
Published on 17. November 2011
790 pages
978-0-19-161739-3 (ISBN)
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In The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field. The Volume's five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behaviour; the biology of language evolution (anatomy, genetics, and neurology); the prehistory of language (when and why did language evolve?); the development of a linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change.
Research on language evolution has burgeoned over the last three decades. Interdisciplinary activity has produced fundamental advances in the understanding of language evolution and in human and primate evolution more generally. This book presents a wide-ranging summation of work in all the disciplines involved. It highlights the links in different lines of research, shows what has been achieved to date, and considers the most promising directions for future work.
The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution will be valued by everyone interested in one of the most productive and fascinating fields in natural and cognitive science.
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Maggie Tallerman | Kathleen R. Gibson
The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution
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Maggie Tallerman is Professor of Linguistics at Newcastle University. She has spent her professional life in North East England, having previously taught for 21 years at Durham University. Her research interests centre on the origins and evolution of syntax and morphology; modern Brythonic Celtic syntax and morphology; and language typology. Her publications include Understanding Syntax (Hodder/OUPUSA, 1998; 3rd edn. 2011); with Robert D. Borsley and David Willis, The Syntax of Welsh (CUP, 2007); and, as editor, Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution (OUP, 2005). She is also the editor of the series Palgrave Modern Linguistics.
Kathleen R. Gibson is Professor Emerita, Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Houston. Her co-edited books include, with Sue T. Parker, Language' and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes (CUP 1990); with Tim Ingold, Tools, Language, and Cognition in Human Evolution (CUP 1993); with Paul Mellars, Modelling the Early Human Mind (McDonald Archaeological Institute 1996); and, with Dean Falk, Evolutionary Anatomy of the Human Neocortex (CUP 2001). She is the co-editor with James R. Hurford of the series, Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language.
Content
- 1: Maggie Tallerman and Kathleen R. Gibson: Introduction: The evolution of language
- Part 1: Insights From Comparative Animal Behaviour
- 2: Kathleen R. Gibson and Maggie Tallerman: Introduction to Part 1: Insights from comparative animal behaviour
- 3: Kathleen R. Gibson: Language or Protolanguage? A review of the ape language literature
- 4: Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney: Primate Social Cognition as a Precursor to Language
- 5: Klaus Zuberbühler: Cooperative Breeding and the Evolution of Vocal Flexibility
- 6: Frans B. M. de Waal and Amy S. Pollick: Gesture as the Most Flexible Modality of Primate Communication
- 7: Katie Slocombe: Have we Underestimated Great Ape Vocal Capacities?
- 8: Peter Slater: Bird Song and Language
- 9: Vincent M. Janik: Vocal Communication and Cognition in Cetaceans
- 10: Irene M. Pepperberg: Evolution of Communication and Language: Insights from parrots and songbirds
- 11: Kathleen R. Gibson: Are Other Animals as Smart as Great Apes? Do Others Provide Better Models for the Evolution of Speech or Language?
- Part 2: The Biology of Language Evolution: Anatomy, Genetics, and Neurology
- 12: Kathleen R. Gibson and Maggie Tallerman: Introduction to Part 2: The Biology of Language Evolution: Anatomy, genetics, and neurology
- 13: W. Tecumseh Fitch: Innateness and Human Language: A biological perspective
- 14: Szabolcs Számadó and Eörs Szathmáry: Evolutionary Biological Foundations of the Origin of Language: The co-evolution of language and brain
- 15: Karl C. Diller and Rebecca L. Cann: Genetic Influences on Languaeg Evolution: An evaluation of the evidence
- 16: Kathleen R. Gibson: Not the Neocortex Alone: Other brain structures also contribute to speech and language
- 17: Merlin Donald: The Mimetic Origins of Language
- 18: William D. Hopkins and Jacques Vauclair: Evolution of Behavioural and Brain Asymmetries in Primates
- 19: Wendy K. Wilkins: Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language Through Comparative Neuroanatomy
- 20: Michael A. Arbib: Mirror Systems: Evolving imitation and the bridge from praxis to language
- 21: Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn: Cognitive Prerequisites for the Evolution of Indirect Speech
- 22: Ann MacLarnon: The Anatomical and Physiological Basis of Human Speech production: Adaptations and exaptations
- Part 3: The Pre-history of Language: When and Why Did Language Evolve?
- 23: Kathleen R. Gibson and Maggie Tallerman: Introduction to Part 3: The pre-history of Language: When and why did language evolve?
- 24: Rebecca L. Cann: Molecular Perspectives on Human Evolution
- 25: Bernard A. Wood and Amy L. Bauernfeind: The Fossil Record: Evidence for speech in early hominins
- 26: Alan Mann: The Genus Homo and the Origins of 'Humanness'
- 27: Thomas Wynn: The Palaeolithic Record
- 28: Steven Mithen: Musicality and Language
- 29: Francesco d'Errico and Marian Vanhaeren: Linguistic Implications of the Earliest Personal Ornaments
- 30: Rudolf Botha: Inferring Modern Language From Ancient Objects
- 31: David Lightfoot: Natural Selection-itis
- 32: Dean Falk: The Role of Honimim Mothers and Infants in Prelinguistic Evolution
- 33: Bart de Boer: Infant-directed Speech and Language Evolution
- 34: John L. Locke: Displays of Vocal and Verbal Complexity: A fitness account of language, situated in development
- 35: Kathleen R. Gibson: Tool-dependent Foraging Strategies and the Origin of Language
- 36: Robin I. M. Dunbar: Gossip and the Social Origins of Langauge
- 37: Chris Knight and Camilla Power: Social Conditions for teh Evolutionary Emergence of Language
- Part 4: Launching Language: The Development of a Linguistic Species
- 38: Maggie Tallerman and Kathleen R. Gibson: Introduction to Part 4: Launching Language: The development of a linguistic species
- 39: Stephen R. Anderson: The Role of Evolution in Shaping the Human Language Faculty
- 40: James R. Hurford: The Origins of Meaning
- 41: Michael C. Corballis: The Origins of Language in Manual Gestures
- 42: Stevan Harnad: From Sensorimotor Categories and Pantomime to Grounded Symbols and Propositions
- 43: Terrence W. Deacon: The Symbol Concept
- 44: Robbins Burling: Words Came First: Adaptations for word-learning
- 45: Michael Studdert-Kennedy: The Emergence of Phonetic Form
- 46: Peter F. MacNeilage: The Evolution of Phonology
- 47: Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy: The Evolution of Morphology
- 48: Maggie Tallerman: What is Syntax?
- 49: Derek Bickerton: The Origins of Syntactic Language
- 50: Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy: The Evolutionary Relevance of More and Less Complex Forms of Language
- 51: Maggie Tallerman: Protolanguage
- 52: Cedric Boeckx: The Emergence of Language, From a Biolinguistic Point of View
- Part 5: Language Change, Creation, and Transmission
- 53: Maggie Tallerman and Kathleen R. Gibson: Introduction to Part 5: Language Change, Creation, and Transmission
- 54: Bernd heine and Tania Kuteva: Grammaticalization Theory as a Tool for Reconstructing Language Evolution
- 55: Joan Bybee: Domain-general Processes as the Basis for Grammar
- 56: Paul T. Roberge: Pidgins, Creoles, and the Creation of Language
- 57: Susan Goldin-Meadow: What Modern-day Gesture can tell us About Language Evolution
- 58: Johanna Nichols: Monogenesis or Polygenesis: A single ancestral language for all humanity?
- 59: Brigitte Pakendorf: Prehistoric Population Contact and Language Change
- 60: Kenny Smith: Why Formal Models are Useful for Evolutionary Linguists
- 61: Simon Kirby: Language is an Adaptive System: The role of cultural evolution in the origins of structure
- 62: Angelo Cangelosi: Robotics and Embodied Agents Modelling of the Evolution of Language
- 63: Bart de Boer: Self-organization and Language Evolution
- 64: Katharing Graf Estes: Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition
- 65: Nick Chater and Morten H. Christiansen: A Solution of the Logical Problem of Language Evolution: Language as an adaptation to the human brain
