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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
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Chris Knight; Michael Studdert-Kennedy; James R Hurford
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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