Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Notes on contributors vii
4. Introduction: Language origins: A fresh start xv
5. The origin of language 1
6. Gesture and deixis 25
7. Moulded gestures and guided syntax 33
8. A student of oral traditions looks at the origins of language 43
9. The meaning of duality of patterning and its importance in language evolution 53
10. Language origins and the red marble theory 67
11. Glossogenesis in endolinguistic and exolinguistic perspective 73
12. The Upper Palaeolithic expansion of supernaturalism and the advent of fully developed spoken language 139
13. The domestication of fire and the origins of language 159
14. The evolutionary history of the human speech organs 173
15. The Aquatic Ape Theory and the origin of speech 199
16. Language innateness and speech pathology 209
17. Language origin and the Island of Reil (Insula Reilii) 233
18. The vestibular system and language evolution 257
19. Acoustical communication in birds and its differences from human language 273
20. Speech act taxonomy, chimpanzee communication, and the evolutionary basis of language 283
21. Author index 305
22. Subject index 313