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El. knyga: Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution [Oxford Handbooks Online E-books]

Edited by (University of Texas Houston), Edited by (Newcastle University)
  • Formatas: 790 pages, Figures, Tables
  • Serija: Oxford Handbooks
  • Išleidimo metai: 17-Nov-2011
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-13: 9780191743818
  • Oxford Handbooks Online E-books
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  • Formatas: 790 pages, Figures, Tables
  • Serija: Oxford Handbooks
  • Išleidimo metai: 17-Nov-2011
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-13: 9780191743818
In The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field. Its five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behavior; the biology of language evolution (anatomy, genetics, and neurology); the prehistory of language (when and why did language evolve?); the development of a linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change.

Research on language evolution has burgeoned over the last three decades. Interdisciplinary activity has produced fundamental advances in the understanding of language evolution and in human and primate evolution more generally. The book presents a wide-ranging summation of work in all the disciplines involved. It highlights the links in different lines of research, shows what has been achieved to date, and considers the most promising directions for future work.

The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution will be valued by everyone interested in one of the most productive and fascinating fields in natural and cognitive science.
Preface and Acknowledgements xi
List of Figures
xiii
List of Tables
xiv
List of Contributors
xv
1 Introduction: The evolution of language
1(38)
Maggie Tallerman
Kathleen R. Gibson
PART I INSIGHTS FROM COMPARATIVE ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
2 Introduction to Part I: Insights from comparative animal behaviour
39(7)
Kathleen R. Gibson
Maggie Tallerman
3 Language or protolanguage? A review of the ape language literature
46(13)
Kathleen R. Gibson
4 Primate social cognition as a precursor to language
59(12)
Robert M. Seyfarth
Dorothy L. Cheney
5 Cooperative breeding and the evolution of vocal flexibility
71(11)
Klaus Zuberbuhler
6 Gesture as the most flexible modality of primate communication
82(8)
Frans B. M. de Waal
Amy S. Pollick
7 Have we underestimated great ape vocal capacities?
90(6)
Katie Slocombe
8 Bird song and language
96(6)
Peter Slater
9 Vocal communication and cognition in cetaceans
102(7)
Vincent M. Janik
10 Evolution of communication and language: insights from parrots and songbirds
109(11)
Irene M. Pepperberg
11 Are other animals as smart as great apes? Do others provide better models for the evolution of speech or language?
120(13)
Kathleen R. Gibson
PART II THE BIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION: ANATOMY, GENETICS, AND NEUROLOGY
12 Introduction to Part II: The biology of language evolution: anatomy, genetics, and neurology
133(10)
Kathleen R. Gibson
Maggie Tallerman
13 Innateness and human language: a biological perspective
143(14)
W. Tecumseh Fitch
14 Evolutionary biological foundations of the origin of language: the co-evolution of language and brain
157(11)
Szabolcs Szamado
Eors Szathmary
15 Genetic influences on language evolution: an evaluation of the evidence
168(8)
Karl C. Diller
Rebecca L. Cann
16 Not the neocortex alone: other brain structures also contribute to speech and language
176(4)
Kathleen R. Gibson
17 The mimetic origins of language
180(4)
Merlin Donald
18 Evolution of behavioural and brain asymmetries in primates
184(14)
William D. Hopkins
Jacques Vauclair
19 Towards an evolutionary biology of language through comparative neuroanatomy
198(9)
Wendy K. Wilkins
20 Mirror systems: evolving imitation and the bridge from praxis to language
207(9)
Michael A. Arbib
21 Cognitive prerequisites for the evolution of indirect speech
216(8)
Frederick L. Coolidge
Thomas Wynn
22 The anatomical and physiological basis of human speech production: adaptations and exaptations
224(15)
Ann MacLarnon
PART III THE PREHISTORY OF LANGUAGE: WHEN AND WHY DID LANGUAGE EVOLVE?
23 Introduction to Part III: The prehistory of language: When and why did language evolve?
239(11)
Kathleen R. Gibson
Maggie Tallerman
24 Molecular perspectives on human evolution
250(8)
Rebecca L. Cann
25 The fossil record: evidence for speech in early hominins
258(15)
Bernard A. Wood
Amy L. Bauernfeind
26 The genus Homo and the origins of `humanness'
273(9)
Alan Mann
27 The Palaeolithic record
282(14)
Thomas Wynn
28 Musicality and language
296(3)
Steven Mithen
29 Linguistic implications of the earliest personal ornaments
299(4)
Francesco d'Errico
Marian Vanhaeren
30 Inferring modern language from ancient objects
303(10)
Rudolf Botha
31 Natural selection-itis
313(5)
David Lightfoot
32 The role of hominin mothers and infants in prelinguistic evolution
318(4)
Dean Falk
33 Infant-directed speech and language evolution
322(6)
Bart de Boer
34 Displays of vocal and verbal complexity: a fitness account of language, situated in development
328(12)
John L. Locke
35 Tool-dependent foraging strategies and the origin of language
340(3)
Kathleen R. Gibson
36 Gossip and the social origins of language
343(3)
Robin I. M. Dunbar
37 Social conditions for the evolutionary emergence of language
346(7)
Chris Knight
Camilla Power
PART IV LAUNCHING LANGUAGE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LINGUISTIC SPECIES
38 Introduction to Part IV: Launching language: the development of a linguistic species
353(8)
Maggie Tallerman
Kathleen R. Gibson
39 The role of evolution in shaping the human language faculty
361(9)
Stephen R. Anderson
40 The origins of meaning
370(12)
James R. Hurford
41 The origins of language in manual gestures
382(5)
Michael C. Corballis
42 From sensorimotor categories and pantomime to grounded symbols and propositions
387(6)
Stevan Harnad
43 The symbol concept
393(13)
Terrence W. Deacon
44 Words came first: adaptations for word-learning
406(11)
Robbins Burling
45 The emergence of phonetic form
417(6)
Michael Studdert-Kennedy
46 The evolution of phonology
423(12)
Peter F. MacNeilage
47 The evolution of morphology
435(7)
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
48 What is syntax?
442(14)
Maggie Tallerman
49 The origins of syntactic language
456(13)
Derek Bickerton
50 The evolutionary relevance of more and less complex forms of language
469(10)
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
51 Protolanguage
479(13)
Maggie Tallerman
52 The emergence of language, from a biolinguistic point of view
492(13)
Cedric Boeckx
PART V LANGUAGE CHANGE, CREATION, AND TRANSMISSION IN MODERN HUMANS
53 Introduction to Part V: Language change, creation, and transmission in modern humans
505(7)
Maggie Tallerman
Kathleen R. Gibson
54 Grammaticalization theory as a tool for reconstructing language evolution
512(16)
Bernd Heine
Tania Kuteva
55 Domain-general processes as the basis for grammar
528(9)
Joan Bybee
56 Pidgins, creoles, and the creation of language
537(8)
Paul T. Roberge
57 What modern-day gesture can tell us about language evolution
545(13)
Susan Goldin-Meadow
58 Monogenesis or polygenesis: a single ancestral language for all humanity?
558(15)
Johanna Nichols
59 Prehistoric population contact and language change
573(8)
Brigitte Pakendorf
60 Why formal models are useful for evolutionary linguists
581(8)
Kenny Smith
61 Language is an adaptive system: the role of cultural evolution in the origins of structure
589(16)
Simon Kirby
62 Robotics and embodied agent modelling of the evolution of language
605(7)
Angelo Cangelosi
63 Self-organization and language evolution
612(9)
Bart de Boer
64 Statistical learning and language acquisition
621(5)
Katharine Graf Estes
65 A solution to the logical problem of language evolution: language as an adaptation to the human brain
626(14)
Nick Chater
Morten H. Christiansen
References 640(83)
Author Index 723(13)
Subject Index 736
Maggie Tallerman is Professor of Linguistics at Newcastle University. She has spent her professional life in North East England, having previously taught for 21 years at Durham University. Her research interests centre on the origins and evolution of syntax and morphology; modern Brythonic Celtic syntax and morphology; and language typology. Her publications include Understanding Syntax (Hodder/OUPUSA, 1998; 3rd edn. 2011); with Robert D. Borsley and David Willis, The Syntax of Welsh (CUP, 2007); and, as editor, Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution (OUP, 2005). She is also the editor of the series Palgrave Modern Linguistics.



Kathleen R. Gibson is Professor Emerita, Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Houston. Her co-edited books include, with Sue T. Parker, Language' and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes (CUP 1990); with Tim Ingold, Tools, Language, and Cognition in Human Evolution (CUP 1993); with Paul Mellars, Modelling the Early Human Mind (McDonald Archaeological Institute 1996); and, with Dean Falk, Evolutionary Anatomy of the Human Neocortex (CUP 2001). She is the co-editor with James R. Hurford of the series, Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language.