Homo symbolicus : the dawn of language, imagination and spirituality / / edited by Christopher S. Henshilwood, Francesco d'Errico |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
Disciplina | 155.7 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HenshilwoodChristopher Stuart
D'ErricoFrancesco |
Soggetto topico |
Symbolism (Psychology)
Human behavior Language and languages - Origin Psycholinguistics Biolinguistics |
ISBN |
1-283-31471-1
9786613314710 90-272-8409-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Homo Symbolicus; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Editors' introduction; Acknowledgements; 1. Pan Symbolicus; 1. Introduction; 2. Communication does not equal language; 3. Language does not equal speech; 4. Symbol-use does not equal language; 5. Non-human language does not equal human language; 6. Pan symbolicus; References; 2.The evolution and the rise of human language; 1. Introduction; 2. Biological humanness; 3. Ape language and ape culture; 4. Maternal infant carriage and interaction as substrate of human agency; 5. Self-agency and the duality of consciousness; 6. Conclusion
References3.The origin of symbolically mediated behaviour; 1. Introduction; 2. First instances of symbolic material culture and their implications; 3. Demography as a triggering factor?; 4. Climate as a triggering factor; 5. Discussion; Acknowledgements; References; 4. Middle Stone Age engravings and their significance to the debate on the emergence of symbolic material culture; 1. Introduction; 2. Howiesons Poort techno-tradition; 2.1 Diepkloof Rock Shelter; 2.1.1 Archaeological context and dating; 3. Diepkloof engraved ostrich eggshells; 4. Still Bay techno-tradition; 4.1 Blombos Cave 4.1.1 Archaeological context and dating5. Blombos engraved ochre; 6. Contrasting the significance of early engravings; Acknowledgements; References; 5.Complex cognition required for compound adhesive manufacture in the Middle Stone Age implies symbolic capacity; 1. Introduction; 2. What is complex cognition?; 3. What gave rise to complex cognition?; 4. The archaeological evidence; 5. Replicated compound adhesive manufacture: Methods; 6. Compound adhesive manufacture as a proxy for modern cognition; Reference; 6.The emergence of language, art and symbolic thinking; 1. Introduction 2. Neandertal-ness3. Paradigm lost; 4. Paradigm found; 5. Conclusion; References; 7.The human major transition in relation to symbolic behaviour, including language, imagination, and spirituality; 1. What is a major evolutionary transition?; 2. Human evolution as a major transition; 3. Cognitive teamwork and simple forms that preceded more advanced forms; 4. Language, imagination, and spirituality; 5. Testable predictions; References; 8.The living as symbols, the dead as symbols; 1. Introduction: Living symbols, dead symbols 2. Problematising the archaeological debate: Symbolic revolutions that were or were not3. Material culture symbols among the living; 4. The dead as symbols; 5. The evolution of Homo symbolicus: Gradual, abrupt, or fragmentary?; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 9.Biology and mechanisms related to the dawn of language; 1. The Functional and Structural Context; 2. The Nature of Language: Crucial Features; 2.1 An embodied symbolic system; 2.2 Equivalence class of representations and embodiment; 2.3 Key features of language; 3. Hierarchical Structuring; 3.1 Functional structure 3.2 Bottom-up and top-down causation |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How the brain evolved language [[electronic resource] /] / Donald Loritz |
Autore | Loritz Donald <1947-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224p. ) : ill |
Disciplina | 401 |
Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Origin
Biolinguistics Grammar, Comparative and general Brain - Evolution Languages |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-36708-0
9786612367083 0-19-534861-3 1-4237-3534-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Lought and Thanguage; 2. Jones' Theory of Evolution; 3. The Communicating Cell; 4. The Society of Brain; 5. Adaptive Resonance; 6. Speech and Hearing; 7. Speech Perception; 8. One, Two, Three; 9. Romiet nad Juleo; 10. Null Movement; 11. Truth and Consequences; 12. What if Language is Learned by Brain Cells; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450086903321 |
Loritz Donald <1947-> | ||
New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How the brain evolved language [[electronic resource] /] / Donald Loritz |
Autore | Loritz Donald <1947-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224p. ) : ill |
Disciplina | 401 |
Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Origin
Biolinguistics Grammar, Comparative and general Brain - Evolution Languages |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-36708-0
9786612367083 0-19-534861-3 1-4237-3534-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Lought and Thanguage; 2. Jones' Theory of Evolution; 3. The Communicating Cell; 4. The Society of Brain; 5. Adaptive Resonance; 6. Speech and Hearing; 7. Speech Perception; 8. One, Two, Three; 9. Romiet nad Juleo; 10. Null Movement; 11. Truth and Consequences; 12. What if Language is Learned by Brain Cells; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783358703321 |
Loritz Donald <1947-> | ||
New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How the brain evolved language / / Donald Loritz |
Autore | Loritz Donald <1947-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224p. ) : ill |
Disciplina | 401 |
Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Origin
Biolinguistics Grammar, Comparative and general Brain - Evolution Languages |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-028798-5
1-282-36708-0 9786612367083 0-19-534861-3 1-4237-3534-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Lought and Thanguage; 2. Jones' Theory of Evolution; 3. The Communicating Cell; 4. The Society of Brain; 5. Adaptive Resonance; 6. Speech and Hearing; 7. Speech Perception; 8. One, Two, Three; 9. Romiet nad Juleo; 10. Null Movement; 11. Truth and Consequences; 12. What if Language is Learned by Brain Cells; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812265803321 |
Loritz Donald <1947-> | ||
New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The inheritance and innateness of grammars / / edited by Myrna Gopnik [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 401 |
Collana |
Vancouver studies in cognitive science
Oxford scholarship online |
Soggetto topico |
Innateness hypothesis (Linguistics)
Biolinguistics Language disorders Language acquisition Language and languages - Origin |
ISBN |
0-19-772174-5
1-280-46999-4 0-19-535400-1 1-60256-211-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Evolution, Nativism and Learning in the Development of Language and Speech; 3. In the Beginning: On the Genetic and Environmental Factors that Make Early Language Acquisition Possible; 4. Exploring Innateness through Cultural and Linguistic Variation; 5. Epidemiology of Specific Language Impairment; 6. The Biological Basis of Language: Familial Language Impairment; 7. The Grammatical Agreement Deficit in Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Therapy Experiments; 8. Specific Language Impairment, Cognition and the Biological Basis of Language
9. Evolutionary Biology and the Evolution of Language10. A Neurobiological Approach to the Noninvariance Problem in Stop Consonant Categorization |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822715203321 |
New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The inheritance and innateness of grammars / / edited by Myrna Gopnik |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 401 |
Collana | Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science |
Soggetto topico |
Innateness hypothesis (Linguistics)
Biolinguistics Language disorders Language acquisition Language and languages - Origin |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-46999-4
0-19-535400-1 1-60256-211-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Evolution, Nativism and Learning in the Development of Language and Speech; 3. In the Beginning: On the Genetic and Environmental Factors that Make Early Language Acquisition Possible; 4. Exploring Innateness through Cultural and Linguistic Variation; 5. Epidemiology of Specific Language Impairment; 6. The Biological Basis of Language: Familial Language Impairment; 7. The Grammatical Agreement Deficit in Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Therapy Experiments; 8. Specific Language Impairment, Cognition and the Biological Basis of Language
9. Evolutionary Biology and the Evolution of Language10. A Neurobiological Approach to the Noninvariance Problem in Stop Consonant Categorization |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457989903321 |
New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1997 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The inheritance and innateness of grammars / / edited by Myrna Gopnik |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 401 |
Collana | Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science |
Soggetto topico |
Innateness hypothesis (Linguistics)
Biolinguistics Language disorders Language acquisition Language and languages - Origin |
ISBN |
0-19-772174-5
1-280-46999-4 0-19-535400-1 1-60256-211-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Evolution, Nativism and Learning in the Development of Language and Speech; 3. In the Beginning: On the Genetic and Environmental Factors that Make Early Language Acquisition Possible; 4. Exploring Innateness through Cultural and Linguistic Variation; 5. Epidemiology of Specific Language Impairment; 6. The Biological Basis of Language: Familial Language Impairment; 7. The Grammatical Agreement Deficit in Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Therapy Experiments; 8. Specific Language Impairment, Cognition and the Biological Basis of Language
9. Evolutionary Biology and the Evolution of Language10. A Neurobiological Approach to the Noninvariance Problem in Stop Consonant Categorization |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784671703321 |
New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1997 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The language of living matter : how molecules acquire meaning / / Bernd-Olaf Küppers |
Autore | Küppers Bernd-Olaf |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (525 pages) |
Disciplina | 401.59 |
Collana | The Frontiers Collection |
Soggetto topico | Biolinguistics |
ISBN |
9783030803193
9783030803186 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910741149103321 |
Küppers Bernd-Olaf | ||
Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The language organ : linguistics as cognitive physiology / / Stephen R. Anderson, David W. Lightfoot [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Anderson Stephen R. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 401 |
Soggetto topico |
Biolinguistics
Cognition |
ISBN |
1-107-13214-2
0-511-04210-8 1-280-41944-X 0-511-17805-0 0-511-14858-5 0-511-30541-9 0-511-61386-5 0-511-04491-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Studying the human language faculty; 2 Language as a mental organ; 3 Syntax; 4 Sound patterns in language; 5 Describing linguistic knowledge; 6 Phonetics and the I-linguistics of speech; 7 Morphology; 8 Language change; 9 ""Growing"" a language; 10 The organic basis of language; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450217803321 |
Anderson Stephen R. | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The language organ : linguistics as cognitive physiology / / Stephen R. Anderson, David W. Lightfoot [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Anderson Stephen R. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 401 |
Soggetto topico |
Biolinguistics
Cognition |
ISBN |
1-107-13214-2
0-511-04210-8 1-280-41944-X 0-511-17805-0 0-511-14858-5 0-511-30541-9 0-511-61386-5 0-511-04491-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Studying the human language faculty; 2 Language as a mental organ; 3 Syntax; 4 Sound patterns in language; 5 Describing linguistic knowledge; 6 Phonetics and the I-linguistics of speech; 7 Morphology; 8 Language change; 9 ""Growing"" a language; 10 The organic basis of language; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783052103321 |
Anderson Stephen R. | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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