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.

Table of Contents

• 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