The Oxford Handbook of Language EvolutionMaggie Tallerman, Kathleen R. Gibson OUP Oxford, 2012 - 763 Seiten In The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field. 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. |
Inhalt
The evolution of language | 1 |
INSIGHTS FROM COMPARATIVE ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR | 37 |
THE BIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION ANATOMY GENETICS AND NEUROLOGY | 131 |
THE PREHISTORY OF LANGUAGE WHEN AND WHY DID LANGUAGE EVOLVE? | 237 |
LAUNCHING LANGUAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LINGUISTIC SPECIES | 351 |
LANGUAGE CHANGE CREATION AND TRANSMISSION IN MODERN HUMANS | 503 |
References | 640 |
Author Index | 723 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ability adaptive alarm calls ancestors animals apes argue asymmetries behaviour Bickerton biolinguistic biological bird song birds bonobos brain capacity Chapter chimpanzees Chomsky cognitive combinations communication systems complex context cultural distinct emergence Evenks evidence evolution of language evolutionary evolutionary linguistics evolved example fossil FOXP2 function genes genetic Gibson grammar grammaticalization Heine and Kuteva hierarchical hominins Homo erectus human language individual infants inference innate interactions involved Kanzi language acquisition language evolution language faculty learners lexical lexigrams linguistic meaning microcephalin mirror neurons modality modern humans monkeys natural selection Neanderthals neural neurons non-human primates noun patterns phonological phrase pidgins population primates processes produce properties protolanguage recursion reference role semantic sequences sign language signals social song sounds speakers species speech structure studies suggests symbolic syntactic syntax Tallerman theory of mind tion Tomasello verb vocal learning vocal tract volume vowels words Zuberbu¨hler