The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 September 2013
- ISBN 9780199679164
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages790 pages
- Size 245x171x43 mm
- Weight 1328 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field, including work in animal behaviour; anatomy, genetics and neurology; the prehistory of language; the development of our uniquely linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change.
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In The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field. Its five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behaviour; the biology of language evolution; the prehistory of language; 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 the evolution of human andanimal communication more generally. This book presents a wide-ranging summation of work in all the disciplines involved. It highlights the links between different lines of research, shows what has been achieved, and considers promising directions for the future.
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.
admirably fulfills the promise that [the] title holds, which is to gather together 62 of the best researchers on language evolution
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The evolution of language
Part 1: Insights From Comparative Animal Behaviour
Introduction to Part 1: Insights from comparative animal behaviour
Language or Protolanguage? A review of the ape language literature
Primate Social Cognition as a Precursor to Language
Cooperative Breeding and the Evolution of Vocal Flexibility
Gesture as the Most Flexible Modality of Primate Communication
Have we Underestimated Great Ape Vocal Capacities?
Bird Song and Language
Vocal Communication and Cognition in Cetaceans
Evolution of Communication and Language: Insights from parrots and songbirds
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
Introduction to Part 2: The Biology of Language Evolution: Anatomy, genetics, and neurology
Innateness and Human Language: A biological perspective
Evolutionary Biological Foundations of the Origin of Language: The co-evolution of language and brain
Genetic Influences on Languaeg Evolution: An evaluation of the evidence
Not the Neocortex Alone: Other brain structures also contribute to speech and language
The Mimetic Origins of Language
Evolution of Behavioural and Brain Asymmetries in Primates
Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language Through Comparative Neuroanatomy
Mirror Systems: Evolving imitation and the bridge from praxis to language
Cognitive Prerequisites for the Evolution of Indirect Speech
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?
Introduction to Part 3: The pre-history of Language: When and why did language evolve?
Molecular Perspectives on Human Evolution
The Fossil Record: Evidence for speech in early hominins
The Genus Homo and the Origins of 'Humanness'
The Palaeolithic Record
Musicality and Language
Linguistic Implications of the Earliest Personal Ornaments
Inferring Modern Language From Ancient Objects
Natural Selection-itis
The Role of Honimim Mothers and Infants in Prelinguistic Evolution
Infant-directed Speech and Language Evolution
Displays of Vocal and Verbal Complexity: A fitness account of language, situated in development
Tool-dependent Foraging Strategies and the Origin of Language
Gossip and the Social Origins of Langauge
Social Conditions for teh Evolutionary Emergence of Language
Part 4: Launching Language: The Development of a Linguistic Species
Introduction to Part 4: Launching Language: The development of a linguistic species
The Role of Evolution in Shaping the Human Language Faculty
The Origins of Meaning
The Origins of Language in Manual Gestures
From Sensorimotor Categories and Pantomime to Grounded Symbols and Propositions
The Symbol Concept
Words Came First: Adaptations for word-learning
The Emergence of Phonetic Form
The Evolution of Phonology
The Evolution of Morphology
What is Syntax?
The Origins of Syntactic Language
The Evolutionary Relevance of More and Less Complex Forms of Language
Protolanguage
The Emergence of Language, From a Biolinguistic Point of View
Part 5: Language Change, Creation, and Transmission
Introduction to Part 5: Language Change, Creation, and Transmission
Grammaticalization Theory as a Tool for Reconstructing Language Evolution
Domain-general Processes as the Basis for Grammar
Pidgins, Creoles, and the Creation of Language
What Modern-day Gesture can tell us About Language Evolution
Monogenesis or Polygenesis: A single ancestral language for all humanity?
Prehistoric Population Contact and Language Change
Why Formal Models are Useful for Evolutionary Linguists
Language is an Adaptive System: The role of cultural evolution in the origins of structure
Robotics and Embodied Agents Modelling of the Evolution of Language
Self-organization and Language Evolution
Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition
A Solution of the Logical Problem of Language Evolution: Language as an adaptation to the human brain
