| 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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