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ISBN 10: 052167736X
ISBN 13: 978-0521677363
Author: W. Tecumseh Fitch
Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and not in others? Since Darwin’s theory of evolution, questions about the origin of language have generated a rapidly-growing scientific literature, stretched across a number of disciplines, much of it directed at specialist audiences. The diversity of perspectives – from linguistics, anthropology, speech science, genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology – can be bewildering. Tecumseh Fitch cuts through this vast literature, bringing together its most important insights to explore one of the biggest unsolved puzzles of human history.
Table of contents:
SECTION 1 – THE LAY OF THE LAND
Language from a biological perspective
Evolution: consensus and controversy
Language
Animal cognition and communication
SECTION 2 – MEET THE ANCESTORS
Meet the ancestors
The LCA: our last common ancestor with chimpanzees
Hominid paleontology and archaeology
SECTION 3 – THE EVOLUTION OF SPEECH
The evolution of the human vocal tract
The evolution of vocal control: the neural basis for spoken language
Models of the evolution of speech and phonology
SECTION 4 – EVALUATING PHYLOGENETIC MODELS OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION
Historical overview: Western theories of language origin before Darwin
Lexical protolanguage
Signs before speech: gestural protolanguage theories
Musical protolanguage
Conclusions and prospects
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