The Evolutionary Emergence Of Language


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The Evolutionary Emergence of Language


The Evolutionary Emergence of Language

Author: Chris Knight

language: en

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release Date: 2000-11-20


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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.

The Evolution of Language


The Evolution of Language

Author: W. Tecumseh Fitch

language: en

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release Date: 2010-04


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This book brings together the most important insights from the vast amount of literature on the origin of language.

The Evolutionary Emergence of Language


The Evolutionary Emergence of Language

Author: Rudolf Botha

language: en

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Release Date: 2013-07-25


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The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading scholars from linguistics, primatology, anthroplogy, and cognitive science consider how language evolution can be understood by means of inference from the study of linked or analogous phenomena in language, animal behaviour, genetics, neurology, culture, and biology. In their introduction the editors show how these approaches can be interrelated and deployed together through their use of comparable forms of inference and the similar conditions they place on the use of evidence. The Evolutionary Emergence of Language will interest everyone concerned with this intriguing and important subject, including those in linguistics, biology, anthropology, archaeology, neurology, and cognitive science.