The Evolution of human languages : proceedings of the workshop on the evolution of human languages, held August, 1989 in Santa Fe, New Mexico /
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| Imprint: | Redwood City, Calif. : Addison-Wesley, c1992. |
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| Description: | xxii, 361 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity. Proceedings ; v. 11 Proceedings volume in the Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity v. 11. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1183835 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Complexity and Complex Adaptive Systems
- On the Evolution of Human Language
- Brain-Language Coevolution
- Innateness and Function in Language Universals
- A Brief Presentation of the Generative Enterprise
- Preliminaries to a Systematic Comparison between Biological and Linguistic Evolution
- An Overview of Genetic Classification
- Before Complexity
- The Evolution of Linguistic Complexity in Pidgin and Creole Languages
- Complexity and Language Acquisition: Influences on the Development of Morphological Systems in Children
- An Approach to the Phylogeny of the Language Faculty
- Ontogeny and Phylogeny: What Child Language and Archaeology Have to Say to Each Other
- Index