The Genesis of Language : : A Different Judgement of Evidence / / ed. by Marge E. Landsberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Bichakjian, Bernard H.,; Fischer, Joseph L.,; Fónagy, Ivan,; Gibson, Kathleen R.,; Hewes, Gordon W.,; Jerison, Harry J.,; Krantz, Grover S.,; Landsberg, Marge E.,; Levin, Saul,; Lock, Andrew,; Molfese, Dennis L.,; Molfese, Victoria J.,; Raffler-Engel, Walburga von,; Steklis, Horst D.,; Warren, Richard M.,; Wind, Jan,; Winter, Willem de,
• HerausgeberIn: Landsberg, Marge E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.) :; Num. figs.
• Other title: I-IV --; Acknowledgements --; Preface --; List of Contributors --; Part I: Neurobiological advances --; Evolutionary neurology and the origin of language as a cognitive adaptation --; Language development and biological programming: behavioral and electrophysiological indices --; Primate communication, comparative neurology, and the origin of language re-examined --; Part II: Perceptual bases --; Grasping and the gesture theory of language origins --; Ways to accelerate progress in glottogonic research --; Implication and the evolution of language --; Perceptual bases for the evolution of speech --; Part III: Fossil evidence --; Neoteny and language evolution --; Language evolution and pedomorphosis --; Language evolution and pedomorphosis A reply to Jan Wind --; Brain size and the evolution of language --; Laryngeal descent in 40,000 year old fossils --; Part IV: Linguistic evidence --; Live speech and preverbal communication --; On linguistic territoriality, iconicity and language evolution --; Vestiges of primeval phonology in certain ancient languages --; The synchronous development of language and kinesics: Further evidence --; Behavioral flexibility and the evolution of language --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110847536; 9783110636772
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110847536
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Marge E. Landsberg.