]edited by[ Richard K. Larson, Viviane Deprez, Hiroko Yamakido
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Cambridge ; New York
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Cambridge University Press,
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2010
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x, 269 p. ill.
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Approaches to the evolution of language
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introduction --The faculty of language :what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? /Marc D. hauser, Noam Chomsky and W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Language architecture.Some simple evo devo theses :how true might they be for language? /Noam Chomsky ;Your theory of language evolution depends on your theory of language /Ray Jackendoff ;Three meaning of "recursion" :key distinctions for biolinguistics /W. Tecumseh Fitch ; On obfuscation, obscurantism, and opacity :evolving conceptions of the faculty of language /Marc D. Hauser --Language and interface systems. Prospection as a cognitive precursor to symbolic communication /Peter Gordenfors and Mathias Osvath ;Did language evolve before speech? / Michael C. Corballis ;A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language /Dan Sperber and Gloria Origgi --Biological and neurological foundations.Plasticity and canalization in the evolution of linguistic communication :an evolutionary developmental approach /Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka ;What is language, that it may have evolved, and what is evolution, that it may apply to language /Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini ; The creative capacity of language, in what manner is it unique, and who had it? /Philip Lieberman ;Genetics and the evolution of language : what genetic studies reveal about the evolution of language /Karin Stromswold --Anthropological context.A putative role for language in the origin of human consciousness /Ian Tattersall ;On two incompatible theories of language evolution /Derek Bickerton ;On the evolution of language :implications of a new and general theory of human origins, properties, and history /Paul M. Bingham.
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Includes bibliographical references )p. 232-262( and index.
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biolinguistic perspectives
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Language and languages- Origin
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Linguistic change
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Biolinguistics
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Neurolinguistics
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Anthropological linguistics
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P
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116
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2010
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