The Genesis of Language: A Different Judgement of Evidence

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The Genesis of Language

A Different Judgement of Evidence

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Volume 3 | Studies in Anthropological Linguistics

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Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines Generative Linguistics
Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines Neurolinguistics
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Acknowledgements
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Preface
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List of Contributors
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Part I: Neurobiological advances
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Evolutionary neurology and the origin of language as a cognitive adaptation
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Harry J. Jerison

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Language development and biological programming: behavioral and electrophysiological indices
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Dennis L. Molfese and Victoria J. Molfese

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Primate communication, comparative neurology, and the origin of language re-examined
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Horst D. Steklis

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Part II: Perceptual bases
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Grasping and the gesture theory of language origins
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Joseph L. Fischer

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Ways to accelerate progress in glottogonic research
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Gordon W. Hewes

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Implication and the evolution of language
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Andrew Lock

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Perceptual bases for the evolution of speech
101
Richard M. Warren

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Part III: Fossil evidence
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Neoteny and language evolution
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Bernard H. Bichakjian

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Language evolution and pedomorphosis
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Jan Wind

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Language evolution and pedomorphosis A reply to Jan Wind
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Bernard H. Bichakjian

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Brain size and the evolution of language
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Kathleen R. Gibson

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Laryngeal descent in 40,000 year old fossils
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Grover S. Krantz

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Part IV: Linguistic evidence
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Live speech and preverbal communication
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Ivan Fónagy

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On linguistic territoriality, iconicity and language evolution
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Marge E. Landsberg

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Vestiges of primeval phonology in certain ancient languages
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Saul Levin

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The synchronous development of language and kinesics: Further evidence
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Walburga von Raffler-Engel

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Behavioral flexibility and the evolution of language
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Willem de Winter

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Index
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The Genesis of Language

Overview

Topics

Table of contents

I-IV

Acknowledgements

Preface

List of Contributors

Evolutionary neurology and the origin of language as a cognitive adaptation

Language development and biological programming: behavioral and electrophysiological indices

Primate communication, comparative neurology, and the origin of language re-examined

Grasping and the gesture theory of language origins

Ways to accelerate progress in glottogonic research

Implication and the evolution of language

Perceptual bases for the evolution of speech

Neoteny and language evolution

Language evolution and pedomorphosis

Language evolution and pedomorphosis A reply to Jan Wind

Brain size and the evolution of language

Laryngeal descent in 40,000 year old fossils

Live speech and preverbal communication

On linguistic territoriality, iconicity and language evolution

Vestiges of primeval phonology in certain ancient languages

The synchronous development of language and kinesics: Further evidence

Behavioral flexibility and the evolution of language

Index

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