Volume issued after the London EVOLANG Conference (1998)

 

The Evolutionary Emergence of Language:

Social function and the origins of linguistic form

Chris Knight, James R. Hurford and Michael Studdert-Kennedy (eds)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (in press).

 

Introduction

 
  1. Studdert-Kennedy, Michael, Knight, Chris and Hurford, James R., `Introduction: The evolutionary emergence of language: Social function and the origins of linguistic form'

    2. Section I: The evolution of cooperative communication

     

  2. Knight, Chris, `Introduction: The evolution of cooperative communication'
  3. Burling, Robbins, `Comprehension, production and conventionalization in the origins of language'
  4. Noble, Jason, `Co-operation, competition and the evolution of pre-linguistic communication'
  5. Dessalles, Jean-Louis, `Language and hominid politics'
  6. Power, Camilla, `Secret language use at female initiation: Bounding gossiping communities'
  7. Knight, Chris, `Play as a precursor of phonology and syntax'

    8. Section II: The emergence of phonetic structure

     

  8. Studdert-Kennedy, Michael, `Introduction: The emergence of phonetic structure'
  9. Vihman, Marilyn M. & DePaolis, Rory A., `The role of mimesis in infant language development: Evidence for phylogeny'
  10. MacNeilage, Peter J. & Davis, Barbara L., `Evolution of speech: The relation between ontogeny and phylogeny'
  11. Studdert-Kennedy, Michael, `Evolutionary implications of the particulate principle: Imitation and the dissociation of phonetic form from semantic function'
  12. Boer, Bart de, `Emergence of sound systems through self-organisation'
  13. Livingstone, Daniel & Fyfe, Colin, `Modelling language-physiology coevolution'

    14. Section III: The evolution of syntax

     

  14. Hurford, James R., `The emergence of syntax'
  15. Lightfoot, David, `The spandrels of the linguistic genotype'
  16. Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew, `The distinction between sentences and noun phrases: An impediment to language evolution?'
  17. Bickerton, Derek, `How protolanguage became language'
  18. Wray, Alison, `Holistic utterances in protolanguage: The link from primates to humans'
  19. Kirby, Simon, `Syntax without natural selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners'
  20. Hurford, James R., `Social transmission favours linguistic generalization'
  21. Worden, Robert P., `Words, memes and language evolution'
  22. Newmeyer, Frederick, J., `On the reconstruction of ``Proto-world'' word order'

    23. Epilogue

     

  23. Pagel, Mark, `The history, rate and pattern of world linguistic evolution'

 

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