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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43245529 Title: The Evolutionary emergence of language : social function and the origins of linguistic form Author: Chris Knight; Michael Studdert-Kennedy; James R Hurford Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN/ISSN: 0521781574 9780521781572 0521786967 9780521786966 OCLC:43245529

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The Evolutionary emergence of language : social function and the origins of linguistic form

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The Evolutionary emergence of language : social function and the origins of linguistic form

Author:	Chris Knight; Michael Studdert-Kennedy; James R Hurford
Publisher:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	This book covers the origins of language, combining social and natural science perspectives.
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Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Chris Knight; Michael Studdert-Kennedy; James R Hurford Find more information about:
ISBN:	0521781574 9780521781572 0521786967 9780521786966
OCLC Number:	43245529
Description:	xi, 426 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents:	Language : a Darwinian adaptation? / Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy and James R. Hurford -- Introduction : the evolution of cooperative communication / Chris Knight -- Comprehension, production and conventionalisation in the origins of language / Robbins Burling -- Cooperation, competition and the evolution of prelinguistic communication / Jason Noble -- Language and hominid politics / Jean-Louis Dessalles -- Secret language use at female initiation : bounding gossiping communities / Camilla Power -- Play as precursor of phonology and syntax / Chris Knight --Introduction : the emergence of phonetic structure / Michael Studdert-Kennedy -- The role of mimesis in infant language development : evidence for phylogeny? / Marilyn M. Vihman and Rory A. Depaolis -- Evolution of speech : the relation between ontogeny and phylogeny / Peter F. Macneilage and Barbara L. Davis -- Evolutionary implications of the particulate principle : imitation and the dissociation of phonetic form from semantic function / Michael Studdert-Kennedy -- Emergence of sound systems through self-organisation / Bart de Boer -- Modelling language-physiology coevolution / Daniel Livingstone and Colin Fyfe -- Introduction : the emergence of syntax / James R. Hurford -- The spandrels of the linguistic genotype / David Lightfoot -- The distinction between sentences and noun phrases : an impediment to language evolution? / Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy -- How protolanguage became language / Derek Bickerton -- Holistic utterances in protolanguage : the link from primates to humans / Alison Wray -- Syntax without natural selection : how compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners / Simon Kirby -- Social transmission favours linguistic generalisation / James R. Hurford -- Words, memes and language evolution / Robert P. Worden -- On the reconstruction of 'proto-world' word order / Frederick J. Newmeyer -- The history, rate and pattern of world linguistic evolution / Mark Pagel.
Responsibility:	edited by Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, James R. Hurford.
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' ... a useful introduction to the social conditions of language evolution.' McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

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