Studies in language origins. Volume 1 / edited by Jan Wind ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wind, Jan.

Series:

Studies in language origins ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Origin.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The question of language origin has fascinated people for years. Traditionally, humanists like linguists and philosophers attempted to solve it with limited success. In the last decades, however, the sciences have begun to study the same question seemingly with more success. This book is the result of the activities of a group of scholars, members of the Language Origins Society, who approach the problem not only from the viewpoint of linguistics, but also from that of anatomy, physiology, social sciences, physical anthropology, paleoanthropology, paleontology, comparative zoology, general bio

Contents:

STUDIES IN LANGUAGE ORIGINS Volume 1; Title page; Acknowledgments; Copyright page; Table of contents; Notes on contributors; IntroductionLanguage origins: a fresh start; The origin of language: the general problem; Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Mosaic elements for language; 3. Imitation, articulation and concept-formation; 4. Cross-modal brain connections; 5. Language and the motor system; 6. Conclusion; REFERENCES; Gesture and deixis; Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Deixis in grammar; 3. Temporal deixis; 4. Spatial deixis; 5. Demonstratives and person deixis; 6. Directionality

7. Gesture as contributing towards syntaxNOTE; REFERENCES; Moulded gestures and guided syntax: scenario of a linguistic breakthrough; Summary; 1. From tools to gestural expressions; 2. Moulded vs. imitative gestures; 3. From monogestures to gestural sequences; 4. Guided syntax; 5. Necessities of gestural support; NOTES; REFERENCES; Astudentof oral traditions looks at the origins of language; Summary; 1. Beowulf and ""memorable speech""; 2. Inventing the syllable by ""biting sound""; NOTES; REFERENCES; The meaning of duality of patterning and its importance in language evolution; Summary; 1

Introduction2. Does American Sign Language have duality of patterning?; 3. Duality and the principle of regularity in sound change; 4. The advantages of duality of patterning in language; REFERENCES; Language origins and the red marble theory; Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Meaning and grammar; 3. Methodology and onomatopoeia; 4. The marble parable; 5. Multiple discoveries; REFERENCES; Glossogenesis in endolinguistic and exolinguistìc perspective: palaeoanthropological data; Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Endolinguistic and exolinguistic perspectives

3. Early paleoanthropological scenarios on the emergence of language.4. Isaac's paradigm; 5. Binford's criticism; 6. The advanced hominid brain; 7. The origin of ""modern humans""; 8. The evolution of the vocal tract; 9. The evolution of tool use; 10. Fire; 11. Symbolism; 12. Exchange of goods; 13. Kinship structures; 14. Demographic transitions; 15. Hominization scenarios and glossogenesis; 16. Migrations, diffusion, and multiple inventions; 17. Conclusion; NOTES; REFERENCES; The Upper Palaeolithic expansion of supematuralism and the advent of fully developed spoken language; Summary

1. Gestural language antecedents of speech2. Advantages of phonemicized speech; 3. Characteristics of auditory verbal hallucinations; 4. ""Interior speech"" in normal human beings; 5. Ethnographic accounts of auditory verbal hallucinations; 6. The privileged phenomenological status of speech; 7. The transition to anatomically modern mankind; 8. Darkness and supernatural communication; 9. Emergence of complex religions and verbal hallucination; 10. The importance of hearing one's own name in verbal hallucinations; 11. Verbal hallucinations and the anthropomorphosis of nature; REFERENCES

The domestication of fire and the origins of language

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-42405-3

9786613424051

90-272-7436-3

OCLC:

773566984