LEADER 05226nam 22006972 450 001 9910777090203321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-12919-2 010 $a1-280-42978-X 010 $a0-511-17798-4 010 $a0-511-04093-8 010 $a0-511-14847-X 010 $a0-511-32584-3 010 $a0-511-60644-3 010 $a0-511-04604-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000002779 035 $a(EBL)202264 035 $a(OCoLC)437063486 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000151543 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11161091 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000151543 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10320272 035 $a(PQKB)11572597 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511606441 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL202264 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10064305 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL42978 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC202264 035 $a(PPN)183063562 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000002779 100 $a20090910d2000|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Evolutionary emergence of language $esocial function and the origins of linguistic form /$fedited by Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, James R. Hurford$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 426 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-78696-7 311 $a0-521-78157-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aLanguage : a Darwinian adaptation? / Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy and James R. Hurford -- Introduction : the evolution of cooperative communication / Chris Knight -- Comprehension, production and conventionalisation in the origins of language / Robbins Burling -- Cooperation, competition and the evolution of prelinguistic communication / Jason Noble -- Language and hominid politics / Jean-Louis Dessalles -- Secret language use at female initiation : bounding gossiping communities / Camilla Power -- Play as precursor of phonology and syntax / Chris Knight --Introduction : the emergence of phonetic structure / Michael Studdert-Kennedy -- The role of mimesis in infant language development : evidence for phylogeny? / Marilyn M. Vihman and Rory A. Depaolis -- Evolution of speech : the relation between ontogeny and phylogeny / Peter F. Macneilage and Barbara L. Davis -- Evolutionary implications of the particulate principle : imitation and the dissociation of phonetic form from semantic function / Michael Studdert-Kennedy -- Emergence of sound systems through self-organisation / Bart de Boer -- Modelling language-physiology coevolution / Daniel Livingstone and Colin Fyfe -- Introduction : the emergence of syntax / James R. Hurford -- The spandrels of the linguistic genotype / David Lightfoot -- The distinction between sentences and noun phrases : an impediment to language evolution? / Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy -- How protolanguage became language / Derek Bickerton -- Holistic utterances in protolanguage : the link from primates to humans / Alison Wray -- Syntax without natural selection : how compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners / Simon Kirby -- Social transmission favours linguistic generalisation / James R. Hurford -- Words, memes and language evolution / Robert P. Worden -- On the reconstruction of 'proto-world' word order / Frederick J. Newmeyer -- The history, rate and pattern of world linguistic evolution / Mark Pagel. 330 $aLanguage has no counterpart in the animal world. Unique to Homo sapiens, it appears inseparable from human nature. But how, when and why did it emerge? The contributors to this volume - linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists, and others - adopt a modern Darwinian perspective which offers a bold synthesis of the human and natural sciences. As a feature of human social intelligence, language evolution is driven by biologically anomalous levels of social cooperation. Phonetic competence correspondingly reflects social pressures for vocal imitation, learning, and other forms of social transmission. Distinctively human social and cultural strategies gave rise to the complex syntactical structure of speech. This book, presenting language as a remarkable social adaptation, testifies to the growing influence of evolutionary thinking in contemporary linguistics. It will be welcomed by all those interested in human evolution, evolutionary psychology, linguistic anthropology, and general linguistics. 606 $aLanguage and languages$xOrigin 606 $aAnthropological linguistics 606 $aHuman evolution 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xOrigin. 615 0$aAnthropological linguistics. 615 0$aHuman evolution. 676 $a401 702 $aKnight$b Chris$f1942- 702 $aStuddert-Kennedy$b Michael 702 $aHurford$b James R. 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777090203321 996 $aThe Evolutionary emergence of language$93773521 997 $aUNINA