The Evolutionary emergence of language : social function and the origins of linguistic form /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. |
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| Description: | xi, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4372976 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. The Evolution of Cooperative Communication
- 1. Introduction: the evolution of cooperative communication
- 2. Comprehension, production and conventionalization in the origins of language
- 3. Co-operation, competition and the evolution of pre-linguistic communication
- 4. Language and hominid politics
- 5. Secret language use at female initiation: bounding gossiping communities
- 6. Play as precursor of phonology and syntax
- Part II. The Emergence of Phonetic Structure
- 7. Introduction: the emergence of phonetic structure
- 8. The role of mimesis in infant language development: evidence for phylogeny?
- 9. Evolution of speech: the relation between ontogeny and phylogeny
- 10. Evolutionary implications of the particulate principle: imitation and the dissociation of phonetic form from semantic function
- 11. Emergence of sound systems through self-organisation
- 12. Modelling language-physiology coevolution
- Part III. The Evolution of Syntax
- 13. The emergence of syntax
- 14. The spandrels of the linguistic genotype
- 15. The distinction between sentences and noun phrases: an impediment to language evolution?
- 16. How protolanguage became language
- 17. Holistic utterances in protolanguage: the link from primates to humans
- 18. Syntax without natural selection: how compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners
- 19. Social transmission favours linguistic generalization
- 20. Words, memes and language evolution
- 21. On the reconstruction of 'proto-world' word order
- 22. The history, rate and pattern of world linguistic evolution
- Epilogue