1. The History of the Study of the Origin of Language

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. PART 1. On the Origin and Evolution of Language
5. 1. The History of the Study of the Origin of Language 15
6. PART 2. The Extended Mind Model
7. 2. The Evolution of Notated Language 25
8. 3. The Extended Mind Model of the Origin of Language 41
9. 4. A Grand Unification Theory of Human Thought and Culture 58
10. PART 3. Comparison and Synthesis of Other Approaches to the Origin of Language
11. 5. How Universal Is Universal Grammar? Chomsky’s Generative Grammar 71
12. 6. Is the Primary Function of Language Social Communication or the Representation of Abstract Thought? 90
13. 7. What Are the Mechanisms That Led to Spoken Language? 114
14. 8. Ontogeny and Language 128
15. 9. Phylogeny or the Evolutionary History of Language 162
16. PART 4. The Synthesis of the Extended Mind Model with Other Approaches
17. 10. The Synthesis of Five Approaches to the Origin of Language 205
18. 11. Overlaps of the Extended Mind Model with the Work of Clark, Jackendoff, and Schumann 223
19. PART 5. The Co-evolution of Culture: Language and Altruism and the Emergence of Universal Culture
20. 12. The Co-evolution of Culture and Language 241
21. 13. Altruism and the Origin of Language and Culture 252
22. 14. Culture as an Organism and the Emergence of Universal Culture 264
23. Epilogue: The Propagating Organization of Language and Culture 287
24. References 293
25. Index 313