Language evolution : biological, linguistic, and philosophical perspectives / Gab́or Győri (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Győri, Gábor.

Language Origins Society.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Origin.

Language and languages.

Human evolution.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

275 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, [2001]

Contents:

Language and evolution in the Middle Stone Age / Duane Quiatt

An ethological reconstruction of the emergence of culture and language during human evolution / Vilmos Csányi

Three varieties of selection and their implications for language origins / A. Charles Catania

Toward an understanding of the relationship between bipedal walking, encephalization, and language origins / Sonia

Ragir

On the origins of syntactically structured vocalization in primates / Mária Újhelyi and Pál Buk

Symbolic cognition / Gab́or Győri

Pinker's language instinct / Robin Allott

Emergence of language structure and learnability / Christer Johansson

Time and again : displaced reference in the communication of linguistic isolates / Jill P. Morford and Susan Goldin-Meadow

Protolanguage and language breakdown / Jur̈gen Tesak

Comparative etymology / Chrystelle Maréchal

Wittgenstein's "private language argument" and theories of the origin of language / Roger Harris

Martin Heidegger on the origin of language in Being and time / Achim Oberst

Ernst Cassirer on language origins / Gerhild Tesak-Gutmannsbauer.

Notes:

Papers presented at recent meetings of the Language Origins Society.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0820447765

OCLC:

46731191