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The prehistory of language / edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight.

Contributor(s): Series: Oxford linguistics | Studies in the evolution of language ; 11.Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: xviii, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780199545872 (cased)
  • 0199545871 (cased)
  • 019954588X (pbk.)
  • 9780199545889 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 427.7 23 P924
LOC classification:
  • P140 .P74 2009
Other classification:
  • 17.12
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Rewards and challenges of multi-perspectival work on the evolution of language and speech / Rudolf Botha -- Why only humans have language / Robin Dunbar -- Is sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language? / Luc Steels -- Holistic communication and the co-evolution of language and music : resurrecting an old idea / Steven Mithen -- Music as a communicative medium / Ian Cross and Ghofur Eliot Woodruff -- Cultural niche construction : evolution's cradle of language / John Odling-Smee and Kevin N. Laland -- Playing with meaning : normative function and structure in play / Sonia Ragir and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh -- The ontogeny and phylogeny of non-verbal deixis / David A. Leavens, Timothy P. Racine, and William D. Hopkins -- The directed scratch : evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees? / Simone Pika and John C. Mitani -- The origins of the lexicon : how a word-store evolved / Maggie Tallerman -- Language : symbolization and beyond / Eric Reuland -- Grammaticalization from a biolinguistic perspective / Elly van Gelderen -- Recursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech / Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn -- Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution) / Bart de Boer -- Mosaic neurobiology and anatomical plausibility / Wendy K. Wilkins.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-334) and index.

Introduction: Rewards and challenges of multi-perspectival work on the evolution of language and speech / Rudolf Botha -- Why only humans have language / Robin Dunbar -- Is sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language? / Luc Steels -- Holistic communication and the co-evolution of language and music : resurrecting an old idea / Steven Mithen -- Music as a communicative medium / Ian Cross and Ghofur Eliot Woodruff -- Cultural niche construction : evolution's cradle of language / John Odling-Smee and Kevin N. Laland -- Playing with meaning : normative function and structure in play / Sonia Ragir and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh -- The ontogeny and phylogeny of non-verbal deixis / David A. Leavens, Timothy P. Racine, and William D. Hopkins -- The directed scratch : evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees? / Simone Pika and John C. Mitani -- The origins of the lexicon : how a word-store evolved / Maggie Tallerman -- Language : symbolization and beyond / Eric Reuland -- Grammaticalization from a biolinguistic perspective / Elly van Gelderen -- Recursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech / Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn -- Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution) / Bart de Boer -- Mosaic neurobiology and anatomical plausibility / Wendy K. Wilkins.