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.
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"The twenty-two contributors span an impressive diversity of fields...The book has many strengths and is a must-read for serious students of the biology evolution of language." Anthropological Linguistics
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This is one of the first systematic attempts to bring language within the neo-Darwinian framework of modern evolutionary theory. 24 co-ordinated 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 devlops.
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typological fitness, articulatory naturalness, primate social intelligence, particulate principle, phonological syntax, ingroup trust, mandibular oscillation, distinguishable calls, articulatory cost, language generativity, syntactical speech, vocal machinery, human syntax, articulatory ease, inflection classes, lexical elaboration, new hierarchical structure, discrimination games, menstrual ritual, call variants, gestural score, neocortex size, executive brain, meaning vector, alveolar closure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Brain Sciences, University of Chicago Press, Academic Press, Harvard University Press, Principle of Contrast, Maynard Smith, Oxford University Press, Current Anthropology, Subjacency Condition, Artificial Life, The Language Instinct, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Noam Chomsky, Scientific American, Basil Blackwell, Chris Knight, Clarendon Press, New Guinea, Nominalized English, Psychological Review, The Evolution of Human Languages, Three Stages New!
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typological fitness, articulatory naturalness, primate social intelligence, particulate principle, phonological syntax, ingroup trust, mandibular oscillation, distinguishable calls, articulatory cost, language generativity, syntactical speech, vocal machinery, human syntax, articulatory ease, inflection classes, lexical elaboration, new hierarchical structure, discrimination games, menstrual ritual, call variants, gestural score, neocortex size, executive brain, meaning vector, alveolar closure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Brain Sciences, University of Chicago Press, Academic Press, Harvard University Press, Principle of Contrast, Maynard Smith, Oxford University Press, Current Anthropology, Subjacency Condition, Artificial Life, The Language Instinct, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Noam Chomsky, Scientific American, Basil Blackwell, Chris Knight, Clarendon Press, New Guinea, Nominalized English, Psychological Review, The Evolution of Human Languages, Three Stages New!
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- Language and Species by Derek Bickerton on 11 pages
- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics) by Steven Pinker on 8 pages
- The Minimalist Program (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Noam Chomsky on 6 pages
- Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language by Robin Dunbar on 5 pages
- Aspects of the Theory of Syntax by Noam Chomsky on 4 pages
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- The Transition to Language (Oxford Linguistics) by Alison Wray on 11 pages
- Human Evolutionary Psychology by Louise Barrett on 7 pages
- Linguistic Universals by Ricardo Mairal on 5 pages
- Evolution of Culture by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar on 5 pages
- New Essays on the Origins of Language (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs, No. 133) (Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs) by Jurgen Trabant on 4 pages
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