The prehistory of language / edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight.

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Superior document:Studies in the evolution of language ; 11
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Studies in the evolution of language ; 11.
Oxford linguistics.
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Physical Description:xviii, 348 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Rewards and challenges of multi-perspectival work on the evolution of language and speech / Rudolf Botha
  • Why only humans have language / Robin Dunbar
  • Is sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language? / Luc Steels
  • Holistic communication and the co-evolution of language and music : resurrecting an old idea / Steven Mithen
  • Music as a communicative medium / Ian Cross and Ghofur Eliot Woodruff
  • Cultural niche construction : evolution's cradle of language / John Odling-Smee and Kevin N. Laland
  • Playing with meaning : normative function and structure in play / Sonia Ragir and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
  • The ontogeny and phylogeny of non-verbal deixis / David A. Leavens, Timothy P. Racine, and William D. Hopkins
  • The directed scratch : evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees? / Simone Pika and John C. Mitani
  • The origins of the lexicon : how a word-store evolved / Maggie Tallerman
  • Language : symbolization and beyond / Eric Reuland
  • Grammaticalization from a biolinguistic perspective / Elly van Gelderen
  • Recursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech / Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn
  • Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution) / Bart de Boer
  • Mosaic neurobiology and anatomical plausibility / Wendy K. Wilkins.