Leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field, including work in animal behaviour; anatomy, genetics and neurology; the prehistory of language; the development of our uniquely linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change. In The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of thefield. The Volume's five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behaviour; the biology of language evolution (anatomy, genetics, and neurology); the prehistory of language (when and why did language evolve?); the development of a linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change. Research on language evolution has burgeoned over the last three decades. Interdisciplinary activity has produced fundamental advances in the understanding of language evolution and in human and primate evolution more generally. This book presents a wide-ranging summation of work in all the disciplines involved. It highlights the links in different lines of research, shows what has been achieved to date, and considers the most promising directions for future work. The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution will be valued by everyone interested in one of the most productive and fascinating fields in natural and cognitive science. INDICE: Introduction: The evolution of language Part 1: Insights From Comparative Animal Behaviour Introduction to Part 1: Insights from comparative animal behaviour Language or Protolanguage? A review of the ape language literature Primate Social Cognition as a Precursor to Language Cooperative Breedingand the Evolution of Vocal Flexibility Gesture as the Most Flexible Modality of Primate Communication Have we Underestimated Great Ape Vocal Capacities? Bird Song and Language Vocal Communication and Cognition in Cetaceans Evolution of Communication and Language: Insights from parrots and songbirds Are Other Animals as Smart as Great Apes? Do Others Provide Better Models for the Evolution of Speech or Language? Part 2: The Biology of Language Evolution: Anatomy, Genetics, and Neurology Introduction to Part 2: The Biology of Language Evolution: Anatomy, genetics, and neurology Innateness and Human Language: A biological perspective Evolutionary Biological Foundations of the Origin of Language: The co-evolution of language and brain Genetic Influences on Languaeg Evolution: An evaluation of the evidence Not the Neocortex Alone: Other brain structures also contribute to speech and language The Mimetic Origins of Language Evolution of Behavioural and Brain Asymmetries in Primates Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language Through Comparative Neuroanatomy Mirror Systems: Evolving imitation and the bridge from praxis to language Cognitive Prerequisites for the Evolution of Indirect Speech The Anatomical and Physiological Basis of Human Speech production: Adaptations and exaptations Part 3: The Pre-history of Language: When and Why Did Language Evolve? Introduction to Part 3: The pre-history of Language: When and why did language evolve? Molecular Perspectiveson Human Evolution The Fossil Record: Evidence for speech in early hominins The Genus Homo and the Origins of 'Humanness' The Palaeolithic Record Musicality and Language Linguistic Implications of the Earliest Personal Ornaments Inferring Modern Language From Ancient Objects Natural Selection-itis The Role of Honimim Mothers and Infants in Prelinguistic Evolution Infant-directed Speech and Language Evolution Displays of Vocal and Verbal Complexity: A fitness account of language, situated in development Tool-dependent Foraging Strategies and the Origin of Language Gossip and the Social Origins of Langauge Social Conditions for teh Evolutionary Emergence of Language Part 4: Launching Language: The Development of a Linguistic Species Introduction to Part 4: Launching Language: The development of a linguistic species The Role of Evolution in Shaping the Human Language Faculty The Origins of Meaning The Origins of Language in Manual Gestures From Sensorimotor Categories and Pantomime to Grounded Symbols and Propositions The Symbol Concept Words Came First: Adaptations for word-learning The Emergence of Phonetic Form The Evolution of Phonology The Evolution of Morphology What is Syntax? The Origins of Syntactic Language The Evolutionary Relevance of More and Less Complex Forms of Language Protolanguage The Emergence of Language, From a Biolinguistic Point of View Part 5: Language Change, Creation, and Transmission Introduction to Part 5: Language Change, Creation, and Transmission Grammaticalization Theory as a Tool for Reconstructing Language Evolution Domain-general Processes as the Basis for Grammar Pidgins, Creoles, and the Creation of Language What Modern-day Gesture can tell us About Language Evolution Monogenesis or Polygenesis: A single ancestral language for all humanity? Prehistoric Population Contact and Language Change Why FormalModels are Useful for Evolutionary Linguists Language is an Adaptive System: The role of cultural evolution in the origins of structure Robotics and Embodied Agents Modelling of the Evolution of Language Self-organization and Language Evolution Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition A Solution of the Logical Problem of Language Evolution: Language as an adaptation to the human brain
- ISBN: 978-0-19-954111-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 800
- Fecha Publicación: 17/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés