Oup handbook of language evolution

Your current browser may not support copying via this button. Contents Go to page:. Gibson and Maggie Tallerman Language or protolanguage? A review of the ape language literature Kathleen R. Gibson Primate social cognition as a precursor to language Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L.

Pollick Have we underestimated great ape vocal capacities? Janik Evolution of communication and language: insights from parrots and songbirds Irene M. Pepperberg Are other animals as smart as great apes? Do others provide better models for the evolution of speech or language?

Gibson and Maggie Tallerman Innateness and human language: a biological perspective W. Diller and Rebecca L. Cann Not the neocortex alone: other brain structures also contribute to speech and language Kathleen R.

Gibson The mimetic origins of language Merlin Donald Evolution of behavioural and brain asymmetries in primates William D. Hopkins and Jacques Vauclair Towards an evolutionary biology of language through comparative neuroanatomy Wendy K.

Wilkins Mirror systems: evolving imitation and the bridge from praxis to language Michael A. Arbib Cognitive prerequisites for the evolution of indirect speech Frederick L. Cann The fossil record: evidence for speech in early hominins Bernard A. Mirror Systems: Evolving imitation and the bridge from praxis to language, Michael A. Arbib Coolidge and Thomas Wynn Introduction to Part 3: The pre-history of Language: When and why did language evolve?

Wood and Amy L. Bauernfeind The Palaeolithic Record, Thomas Wynn Musicality and Language, Steven Mithen Natural Selection-itis, David Lightfoot Locke Dunbar Anderson The Origins of Meaning, James R. Hurford Corballis The Symbol Concept, Terrence W. Deacon The Evolution of Phonology, Peter F.

MacNeilage What is Syntax? Protolanguage, Maggie Tallerman Roberge Monogenesis or Polygenesis: A single ancestral language for all humanity? Language is an Adaptive System: The role of cultural evolution in the origins of structure, Simon Kirby Self-organization and Language Evolution, Bart de Boer She has spent her professional life in North East England, having previously taught for 21 years at Durham University.

Her research interests center on the origins and evolution of syntax and morphology; modern Brythonic Celtic syntax and morphology; and language typology. She is also the editor of the series Palgrave Modern Linguistics. Kathleen R. Her co-edited books include, with Sue T. Bauernfeind The Palaeolithic Record, Thomas Wynn Musicality and Language, Steven Mithen Natural Selection-itis, David Lightfoot Locke Dunbar Anderson The Origins of Meaning, James R.

Hurford Corballis The Symbol Concept, Terrence W. Deacon The Evolution of Phonology, Peter F. MacNeilage What is Syntax? Protolanguage, Maggie Tallerman Roberge Monogenesis or Polygenesis: A single ancestral language for all humanity? Language is an Adaptive System: The role of cultural evolution in the origins of structure, Simon Kirby Self-organization and Language Evolution, Bart de Boer She has spent her professional life in North East England, having previously taught for 21 years at Durham University.

Her research interests centre on the origins and evolution of syntax and morphology; modern Brythonic Celtic syntax and morphology; and language typology. She is also the editor of the series Palgrave Modern Linguistics. Her co-edited books include, with Sue T. Anderson, Yale University Michael A.

Cheney, University of Pennsylvania Morton H. Christiansen, Cornell University Frederick K. Hurford, University of Edinburgh Vincent M. Janik, University of St. Pepperberg, Harvard University Amy S. Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.