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Author(s): James Raymond Hurford, James R. Hurford, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, Chris Knight
ISBN(s): 9780521639644, 0521639646
Edition: 1
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Year: 1998
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  0521639646 

ISBN 13: 978-0521639644

Author:  James Raymond Hurford, James R. Hurford, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, Chris Knight

This is one of the first systematic attempts to bring language within the neo-Darwinian framework of modern evolutionary theory. Twenty-four coordinated essays by linguists, phoneticians, anthropologists, psychologists and cognitive scientists explore the origins of the complex structure of human language, emphasizing its social (as opposed to purely practical) bases, and showing the mechanisms by which this structure emerges, is maintained, and develops.
 

Table of contents: 

  1. Grounding language function in social cognition

  2. On discontinuing the continuity–discontinuity debate

  3. The origin of language and cognition

  4. Mimesis and the Executive Suite: missing links in language evolution

  5. Ritual–speech coevolution: a solution to the problem of deception

  6. Theory of mind and the evolution of language

  7. Old wives tales, the gossip hypothesis and the reliability of cheap signals

  8. Altruism, status and the origin of relevance

  9. Evolution of the mechanism of language output: comparative neurobiology of vocal and manual communication

  10. Systemic constraints and adaptive change in the formation of sound structure

  11. The development of sound systems in human language

  12. Synonymy avoidance, phonology and the origin of syntax

  13. The emergence of syntax

  14. On the supposed counter-functionality of Universal Grammar: some evolutionary implications

  15. Language evolution and the Minimalist Program: the origins of syntax

  16. Catastrophic evolution: the case for a single step from protolanguage to full human language

  17. The evolution of language from social intelligence

  18. The emergence of phonology

  19. Long-call structure in apes as a possible precursor for language

  20. Social soundmaking as a precursor to spoken language

  21. The particulate origins of language generativity: from syllable to gesture

  22. Fitness and the selective adaptation of language

  23. Synthesizing the origins of language and meaning using coevolution, self-organization and level formation

  24. Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar

  25. Index

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