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The Genesis of Language : A Different Judgement of Evidence / ed. by Marge E. Landsberg.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics ; 3Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1988Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (278 p.) : Num. figsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110110876
  • 9783110847536
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401
LOC classification:
  • P116
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-IV -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Part I: Neurobiological advances -- Evolutionary neurology and the origin of language as a cognitive adaptation -- Language development and biological programming: behavioral and electrophysiological indices -- Primate communication, comparative neurology, and the origin of language re-examined -- Part II: Perceptual bases -- Grasping and the gesture theory of language origins -- Ways to accelerate progress in glottogonic research -- Implication and the evolution of language -- Perceptual bases for the evolution of speech -- Part III: Fossil evidence -- Neoteny and language evolution -- Language evolution and pedomorphosis -- Language evolution and pedomorphosis A reply to Jan Wind -- Brain size and the evolution of language -- Laryngeal descent in 40,000 year old fossils -- Part IV: Linguistic evidence -- Live speech and preverbal communication -- On linguistic territoriality, iconicity and language evolution -- Vestiges of primeval phonology in certain ancient languages -- The synchronous development of language and kinesics: Further evidence -- Behavioral flexibility and the evolution of language -- Index
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I-IV -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Part I: Neurobiological advances -- Evolutionary neurology and the origin of language as a cognitive adaptation -- Language development and biological programming: behavioral and electrophysiological indices -- Primate communication, comparative neurology, and the origin of language re-examined -- Part II: Perceptual bases -- Grasping and the gesture theory of language origins -- Ways to accelerate progress in glottogonic research -- Implication and the evolution of language -- Perceptual bases for the evolution of speech -- Part III: Fossil evidence -- Neoteny and language evolution -- Language evolution and pedomorphosis -- Language evolution and pedomorphosis A reply to Jan Wind -- Brain size and the evolution of language -- Laryngeal descent in 40,000 year old fossils -- Part IV: Linguistic evidence -- Live speech and preverbal communication -- On linguistic territoriality, iconicity and language evolution -- Vestiges of primeval phonology in certain ancient languages -- The synchronous development of language and kinesics: Further evidence -- Behavioral flexibility and the evolution of language -- Index

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