Grasping and the gesture theory of language origins

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Preface VII
4. List of Contributors XI
5. Part I: Neurobiological advances
6. Evolutionary neurology and the origin of language as a cognitive adaptation 3
7. Language development and biological programming: behavioral and electrophysiological indices 11
8. Primate communication, comparative neurology, and the origin of language re-examined 37
9. Part II: Perceptual bases
10. Grasping and the gesture theory of language origins 67
11. Ways to accelerate progress in glottogonic research 79
12. Implication and the evolution of language 89
13. Perceptual bases for the evolution of speech 101
14. Part III: Fossil evidence
15. Neoteny and language evolution 113
16. Language evolution and pedomorphosis 137
17. Language evolution and pedomorphosis A reply to Jan Wind 145
18. Brain size and the evolution of language 149
19. Laryngeal descent in 40,000 year old fossils 173
20. Part IV: Linguistic evidence
21. Live speech and preverbal communication 183
22. On linguistic territoriality, iconicity and language evolution 205
23. Vestiges of primeval phonology in certain ancient languages 219
24. The synchronous development of language and kinesics: Further evidence 227
25. Behavioral flexibility and the evolution of language 247
26. Index 271