Language Origin

A Multidisciplinary Approach

By: Jan Wind (Editor), Brunetto Chiarelli (Editor), Bernard Bichakjian (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 March 1992

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Language Origin: A Multidisciplinary Approach presents a synthesis of viewpoints and data on linguistic, psychological, anatomical and behavioral studies on living species of Primates and provides a comparative framework for the evaluation of paleoanthropological studies. This double endeavor makes it possible to direct new research on the nature and evolution of human language and cognition.
The book is directed to students of linguistics, biology, anthropoloy, anatomy, physiology, neurology, psychology, archeology, paleontology, and other related fields. A better understanding of speech pathology may stem from a better understanding of the relationship of human communication to the evolution of our species. The book is conceived as a timely contribution to such knowledge since it allows, for the first time, a systematic assessment of the origins of human language from a comprehensive array of scientific viewpoints.

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Preface
Acknowledgement
The Director's Address: The Reason for a Meeting and the Historical Background
General Considerations
History of Glottogonic Theories	p. 3
Speech Origin: A Review	p. 21
Adaptationist and Nativist Positions on Language Origins: A Critique	p. 39
Cranial Anatomy
A Systematic Relationship between Brain Size Increase and Larynx Transformation during Hominization	p. 51
Auditory Ossicles and the Evolution of the Primate Ear: A Biomechanical Approach	p. 67
Neuroanatomy
Basic Features of Cortical Connectivity and Some Consideration on Language	p. 89
Neurophysiology
The Motor Theory of Language: Origin and Function	p. 105
The Neural Circuitry Underlying Primate Calls and Human Language	p. 121
Evolving Mixed-Media Messages and Grammatical Language: Secondary Uses of the Neural Sequencing Machinery Needed for Ballistic Movements	p. 163
Neuropsychology
The Contribution of Psycholinguistics to the Study of Language Origins	p. 183
Cerebral Lateralization of Human Languages. Clinical and Experimental Data	p. 195
The Origin of Visible Language	p. 225
Implications of the Evolution of Writing for the Origin of Language: Can a Paleoneurologist Find Happiness in the Neolithic?	p. 235
Comparative Psychology
Prelinguistic Development of Children and Chimpanzees	p. 245
Language Origin: the Role of Animal Cognition	p. 265
Primatology
Evolution and Lateralization of the Two Great Primate Action Systems	p. 281
The Primate Isolation Call and the Evolution and Physiological Control of Human Speech	p. 301
Vocal Communication of Pan troglogytes: "Triangulating" to the Origin of Spoken Language	p. 323
Early Signs of Language in Cross-fostered Chimpanzees	p. 351
Paleoanthropology
Fossil Skulls and Hominid Vocal Tracts: New Approaches to Charting the Evolution of Human Speech	p. 385
On the Evolutionary Biology of Speech and Syntax	p. 399
The Origin of Language: An Anthropological Approach	p. 421
On Emergent Pre-Language and Language Evolution and Transcendent Feedback from Language Production on Cognition and Emotion in Early Man	p. 449
General Linguistics
Roots of Language: The Forbidden Experiment	p. 467
Pragmatics and the Evolution of Syntax	p. 479
Historical Linguistics
Language Evolution: Evidence from Historical Linguistics	p. 497
Evolution in Language: Evidence from the Romance Auxiliary	p. 517
Philosophy
Pre-Linguistic Roots of Language and Its Innate Ideas	p. 531
On the Origins of Philosophical Language	p. 541
Index	p. 551
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