The prehistory of language
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Studies in the evolution of language ;
11. Oxford linguistics. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Rewards and challenges of multi-perspectival work on the evolution of language and speech / Rudolf Botha
- Why only humans have language / Robin Dunbar
- Is sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language? / Luc Steels
- Holistic communication and the co-evolution of language and music : resurrecting an old idea / Steven Mithen
- Music as a communicative medium / Ian Cross and Ghofur Eliot Woodruff
- Cultural niche construction : evolution's cradle of language / John Odling-Smee and Kevin N. Laland
- Playing with meaning : normative function and structure in play / Sonia Ragir and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
- The ontogeny and phylogeny of non-verbal deixis / David A. Leavens, Timothy P. Racine, and William D. Hopkins
- The directed scratch : evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees? / Simone Pika and John C. Mitani
- The origins of the lexicon : how a word-store evolved / Maggie Tallerman
- Language : symbolization and beyond / Eric Reuland
- Grammaticalization from a biolinguistic perspective / Elly van Gelderen
- Recursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech / Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn
- Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution) / Bart de Boer
- Mosaic neurobiology and anatomical plausibility / Wendy K. Wilkins.