The Evolutionary Emergence of Language : Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form - Chris Knight

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The Evolutionary Emergence of Language

Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form

By: Chris Knight (Editor), Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Editor), James R. Hurford (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 February 2001

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Language 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.

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' ... a useful introduction to the social conditions of language evolution.' McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Historical & Comparative Linguistics Dialect Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

The Evolution of Cooperative Communication
Introduction: the evolution of cooperative communication
Comprehension, production and conventionalization in the origins of language
Co-operation, competition and the evolution of pre-linguistic communication
Language and hominid politics
Secret language use at female initiation: bounding gossiping communities
Play as precursor of phonology and syntax
The Emergence of Phonetic Structure
Introduction: the emergence of phonetic structure
The role of mimesis in infant language development: evidence for phylogeny?
Evolution of speech: the relation between ontogeny and phylogeny
Evolutionary implications of the particulate principle: imitation and the dissociation of phonetic form from semantic function
Emergence of sound systems through self-organisation
Modelling language-physiology coevolution
The Evolution of Syntax
The emergence of syntax
The spandrels of the linguistic genotype
The distinction between sentences and noun phrases: an impediment to language evolution?
How protolanguage became language
Holistic utterances in protolanguage: the link from primates to humans
Syntax without natural selection: how compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners
Social transmission favours linguistic generalization
Words, memes and language evolution
On the reconstruction of 'proto-world' word order
The history, rate and pattern of world linguistic evolution
Epilogue
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