Approaches to the Evolution of Language

Social and Cognitive Bases

By: Chris Knight (Editor), Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Editor), James R. Hurford (Editor)

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This is one of the first systematic attempts to bring language within the neo-Darwinian framework of modern evolutionary theory, without abandoning the vast gains in phonology and syntax achieved by formal linguistics over the past forty years. The contributors, linguists, psychologists, and paleoanthropologists, address such questions as: what is language as a category of behavior; is it an instrument of thought or of communication; what do individuals know when they know a language; what cognitive, perceptual, and motor capacities must they have to speak, hear, and understand a language? For the past two centuries, scientists have tended to see language function as largely concerned with the exchange of practical information. By contrast, this volume takes as its starting point the view of human intelligence as social, and of language as a device for forming alliances, in exploring the origins of the sound patterns and formal structures that characterize language.

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"The twenty-two contributors span an impressive diversity of fields...The book has many strengths and is a must-read for serious students of the biology evolution of language." Anthropological Linguistics

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Introduction
Grounding Language Function in Social Cognition
Introduction: Grounding language function in social cognition
On discontinuing the continuity-discontinuity debate
The origin of language and cognition Ib
Mimesis and the executive suite: missing links in language evolution
Ritual/speech co-evolution: a 'selfish gene' solution to the problem of deception
Theory of mind and the evolution of language
Old wives' tales: the gossip hypothesis and the reliability of cheap signals
Altruism, status, and the origin of relevance
The evolution of language from social intelligence
The Emergence of Phonology
Introduction: the emergence of phonology
Long call structure in apes as a possible precursor for language
Social sound-making as a precursor to spoken language
The particulate origins of language generativity: from syllable to gesture
Evolution of the mechanisms of language output: comparative neurobiology of vocal and manual communication
Systemic constraints and adaptive change in the formation of sound structure
The development of sound systems in human language
Synonymy avoidance, phonology and the origin of syntax
The Emergence of Syntax
Introduction: the emergence of syntax
On the supposed 'counterfunctionality' of universal grammar: some evolutionary implications
Language evolution and the minimalist program: the origins of syntax
Catastrophic evolution: the case for a single step from protolanguage to full human language
Fitness and the selective adaptation of language
Synthesizing the origins of language and meaning using co-evolution, self-organization and level formation
Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar
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