Language origins : perspectives on evolution
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press ,
2005
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| Series: | Studies in the evolution of language
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Language origins and evolutionary processes / Maggie Tallerman
- Pt. 1. Evolution of speech and speech sounds: how did spoken language emerge?
- Introduction to part 1: How did links between perception and production emerge for spoken language? / Michael Studdert-Kennedy
- The mirror system hypothesis : how did protolanguage evolve? / Michael Arbib
- How did language go discrete? / Michael Studdert-Kennedy
- From holistic to discrete speech sounds: the blind snowflake-maker hypothesis / Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
- Infant-directed speech and evolution of language / Bart de Boer
- Pt. 2. Evolution of grammar: how did syntax and morphology emerge?
- Introduction to part 2: Protolanguage and the development of complexity / Maggie Tallerman
- Initial syntax and modern syntax: did the clause evolve from the syllable? / Maggie Tallerman
- The potential role of production in the evolution of syntax / Dana McDaniel
- The evolutionary origin of morphology / Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
- The evolution of grammatical structures and ?functional need? explanations / Bernard Comrie and Tania Kuteva
- Deception and mate selection: some implications for relevance and the evolution of language / Bradley Franks and Kate Rigby
- Pt. 3. Analogous and homologous traits: what can we learn from other species?
- Introduction to pt. 3: The broadening scope of animal communication research / Alison Wray
- An avian perspective on language evolution: implications of simultaneous development of vocal and physical object combinations by a grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) / Irene Maxine Pepperberg
- Linguistic prerequisites in the primate lineage / Klaus Zuberbuhler
- Pt. 4. Learnibility and diversity: how did languages emerge and diverge?
- Introduction to part 4: Computer modelling widens the focus of language study / James R. Hurford
- Cultural selection for learnability: three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable / Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby, and Kenny Smith
- Co-evolution of the language faculty and languages(s) with decorrelated encodings / Ted Briscoe
- Acquisition and evolution of quasi-regular languages: two puzzles for the price of one / Matthew Roberts, Luca Onnis, and Nick Chater
- Evolution of language diversity: why fitness counts / Zach Solan ... [et al.]
- Mutual exclusivity: communicative success despite conceptual divergence / Andrew D.M. Smith