The Evolutionary emergence of language social function and the origins of linguistic form
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2000
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 426 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0511040938 0511606443 0521781574 0521786967 9780511040931 9780511606441 9780521781572 9780521786966 |