The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic FormChris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, James Hurford Cambridge University Press, 20 nov 2000 - 426 páginas Language has no counterpart in the animal world. Unique to Homo sapiens, it appears inseparable from human nature. But how, when and why did it emerge? The contributors to this volume - linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists, and others - adopt a modern Darwinian perspective which offers a bold synthesis of the human and natural sciences. As a feature of human social intelligence, language evolution is driven by biologically anomalous levels of social cooperation. Phonetic competence correspondingly reflects social pressures for vocal imitation, learning, and other forms of social transmission. Distinctively human social and cultural strategies gave rise to the complex syntactical structure of speech. This book, presenting language as a remarkable social adaptation, testifies to the growing influence of evolutionary thinking in contemporary linguistics. It will be welcomed by all those interested in human evolution, evolutionary psychology, linguistic anthropology, and general linguistics. |
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Introduction The Evolution of Cooperative Communication | 19 |
Comprehension Production and Conventionalisation in the Origins of Language | 27 |
Cooperation Competition and the Evolution of Prelinguistic Communication | 40 |
Language and Hominid Politics | 62 |
Secret Language Use at Female Initiation Bounding Gossiping Communities | 81 |
Play as Precursor of Phonology and Syntax | 99 |
The Emergence of Phonetic Structure | 121 |
Introduction The Emergence of Phonetic Structure | 123 |
Introduction The Emergence of Syntax | 219 |
The Spandrels of the Linguistic Genotype | 231 |
The Distinction Between Sentences and Noun Phrases An Impediment to Language Evolution? | 248 |
How Protolanguage Became Language | 264 |
Holistic Utterances in Protolanguage The Link from Primates to Humans | 285 |
Syntax Without Natural Selection How Compositionality Emerges from Vocabulary in a Population of Learners | 303 |
Social Transmission Favours Linguistic Generalisation | 324 |
Words Memes and Language Evolution | 353 |
The Role of Mimesis in Infant Language Development Evidence for Phylogeny? | 130 |
Evolution of Speech The Relation Between Ontogeny and Phylogeny | 146 |
Evolutionary Implications of the Particulate Principle Imitation and the Dissociation of Phonetic Form from Semantic Function | 161 |
Emergence of Sound Systems Through SelfOrganisation | 177 |
Modelling LanguagePhysiology Coevolution | 199 |
The Emergence of Syntax | 217 |
On the Reconstruction of ProtoWorld Word Order | 372 |
Epilogue | 389 |
The History Rate and Pattern of World Linguistic Evolution | 391 |
Author Index | 417 |
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