The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives
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A team of experts examine the evolution of human language from a variety of different standpoints.
Figures viiContributors viiiAcknowledgments ixIntroduction 11 The faculty of language: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? Marcd D. Hauser Noam Chomsky W. Tecumseh Fitch 14Part I Language architecture 432 Some simple evo devo theses: how true might they be for language? Noam Chomsky 453 Your theory of language evolution depends on your theory of language Ray Jackendoff 634 Three meanings of "recursion": key distinctions for biolinguistics W. Tecumseh Fitch 735 On obfuscation, obscurantism, and opacity: evolving conceptions of the faculty of language Marc D. Hauser 91Part II Language and interface systems 1016 Prospection as a cognitive precursor to symbolic communication Peter G?rdenfors Mathias Osvath 1037 Did language evolve before speech? Michael C. Corballis 1158 A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language Dan Sperber Gloria Origgi 124Part III Biological and neurological foundations 1339 Plasticity and canalization in the evolution of linguistic communication: an evolutionary developmental approach Daniel Dor Eva Jablonka 13510 What is language, that it may have evolved, and what is evolution, that it may apply to language Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini 14811 The creative capacity of language, in what manner is it unique, and who had it? Philip Lieberman 16312 Genetics and the evolution of language: what genetic studies reveal about the evolution of language Karin Stromswold 176Part IV Anthropological context 19113 A putative role for language in the origin of human consciousness Ian Tattersall 19314 On two incompatible theories of language evolution Derek Bickerton 19915 On the evolution of language: implications of a new and general theory of human origins, properties, and history Paul M. Bingham 211Notes 225References 232Index 263
