Language Evolution

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-924484-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 414 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 626 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kirby, Simon

Christiansen, Morten H.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Morten H. Christiansen and Simon Kirby: Language Evolution: The Hardest Problem in Science?

- 2: Steven Pinker: Language as an Adaptation to the Cognitive Niche

- 3: James Hurford: The Language Mosaic and its Evolution

- 4: Frederick J. Newmeyer: What can the Field of Linguistics Tell Us About the Origins of Language?

- 5: Derek Bickerton: Symbol and Structure: A Comprehensive Framework for Language Evolution

- 6: Michael Tomasello: On the Different Origins of Symbols and Grammar

- 7: Terrence W. Deacon: Universal Grammar and Semiotic Constraints

- 8: Iain Davidson: The Archaeological Evidence of Language Origins: States of the Art

- 9: Marc D. Hauser and W. Tecumseh Fitch: What are the Uniquely Human Components of the Language Faculty?

- 10: Michael A. Arbib: The Evolving Mirror System: A Neural Basis for Language Readiness

- 11: Michael C. Corballis: From Hand to Mouth: the Gestural Origins of Language

- 12: Robin I. M. Dunbar: The Origin and Subsequent Evolution of Language

- 13: Michael Studdert-Kennedy and Louis Goldstein: Launching Language: the Gestural Origin of Discrete Infinity

- 14: Philip Lieberman: Motor Control, Speech, and the Evolution of Human Language

- 15: Simon Kirby and Morten H. Christiansen: From Language Learning to Language Evolution

- 16: Ted Briscoe: Grammatical Assimilation

- 17: Natalia L. Komarova and Martin A. Nowak: Language, Learning, and Evolution

Über Autor(innen)

Morten H. Christiansen is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. He is co-editor of Connectionist Psycholinguistics published by Ablex in 2001.

Simon Kirby is a British Academy Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh: his book, Function, Selection, and Innateness was published by OUP in 1999.