The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives

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Edited by Richard K. Larson, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Viviane Déprez, Rutgers University, New Jersey, Hiroko Yamakido, Lawrence University, Wisconsin

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: June 2012
Print publication year:: 2010
Online ISBN:: 9780511817755
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511817755

Subjects:: Evolution of Language, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics

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The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such standpoints, including language's genetic basis, the anthropological context of its appearance, its formal structure, its relation to systems of cognition and thought, as well as its possible evolutionary antecedents. The book includes Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch's seminal and provocative essay on the subject, 'The Faculty of Language,' and charts the progress of research in this active and highly controversial field since its publication in 2002. This timely volume will be welcomed by researchers and students in a number of disciplines, including linguistics, evolutionary biology, psychology, and cognitive science.

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Biolinguistic Perspectives

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Figures
pp vii-vii

Contributors
pp viii-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-13

1 - The faculty of language: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve?
pp 14-42

Part I - Language architecture
pp 43-44

2 - Some simple evo devo theses: how true might they be for language?
pp 45-62

3 - Your theory of language evolution depends on your theory of language
pp 63-72

4 - Three meanings of “recursion”: key distinctions for biolinguistics
pp 73-90

5 - On obfuscation, obscurantism, and opacity: evolving conceptions of the faculty of language
pp 91-100

Part II - Language and interface systems
pp 101-102

6 - Prospection as a cognitive precursor to symbolic communication
pp 103-114

7 - Did language evolve before speech?
pp 115-123

8 - A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language
pp 124-132

Part III - Biological and neurological foundations
pp 133-134

9 - Plasticity and canalization in the evolution of linguistic communication: an evolutionary developmental approach
pp 135-147

10 - What is language, that it may have evolved, and what is evolution, that it may apply to language
pp 148-162

11 - The creative capacity of language, in what manner is it unique, and who had it?
pp 163-175

12 - Genetics and the evolution of language: what genetic studies reveal about the evolution of language
pp 176-190

Part IV - Anthropological context
pp 191-192

13 - A putative role for language in the origin of human consciousness
pp 193-198

14 - On two incompatible theories of language evolution
pp 199-210

15 - On the evolution of language: implications of a new and general theory of human origins, properties, and history
pp 211-224

Notes
pp 225-231

References
pp 232-262

Index
pp 263-269

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