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The biology of language / edited by Stanisław Puppel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Puppel, Stanisław, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biolinguistics--Congresses.
- Biolinguistics.
- Language and languages--Origin--Congresses.
- Language and languages.
- Historical linguistics--Congresses.
- Historical linguistics.
- Human evolution--Congresses.
- Human evolution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume brings together 15 papers on the evolution and origin of language. The authors approach the subject from various angles, exploring biological, cultural, psychological and linguistic factors. A wide variety of topics is discussed, such as animal communication, language acquisition, the essentialist-evolutionist debate, and genetic classification.
- Contents:
- Chimps, children, and creoles : the need for caution / Jean Aichison
- Some problems with an evolutionary view of written language / David Barton
- Essentialism in language / Bernard H. Bichakjian
- The invention of the syllable : reflections of a humanist on the biology of language / Robert Payson Creed
- Genetic classification and the historical method / Angela Della Volpe
- Animal communication and human language : searching for their evolutionary relationship / Gábor Györi
- From proto-language to grammar / Martin Hildebrand-Nilshon
- The biological imperatives in communicative interaction / Mary Ritchie Key
- Ritual/representation as the semiogenetic precursor of hominid symbol use / Jo Liska
- Language acquisition and the essentialist-evolutionist debate / David J. Messer
- Group selection in the biocultural evolution of language : fate of the Neandertals revisited / Richard G. Milo and Duane Quiatt
- The biology of language / Harvey B. Sarles
- A possibility of quantum evolution of language / Włodzimierz Sedlak
- Biological and cultural factors in the evolution of language / David Smillie.
- Notes:
- "Papers presented and discussed at an international symposium held in December of 1988 at Czerniejewo, near Poznań, Poland"--Pref.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-42393-6
- 9786613423931
- 90-272-7424-X
- OCLC:
- 773566948
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