In:New Perspectives on the Origins of Language
Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen
[Studies in Language Companion Series 144] 2013
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 21 November 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.144.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.144.toc
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1. General perspectives and issues on language origins
Historical, Darwinian, and current perspectives on the origin(s) of language
The origin of language as seen by eighteenth-century philosophy
Cognitive and social aspects of language origins
Part 2. At the roots of language
Reconstructed fossil vocal tracts and the production of speech: Phylogenetic and ontogenetic considerations
Paleoanthropology and language
Material culture and language
Gestural theory of the origins of language
Part 3. Communication and language origins
Primate communication
FoxP2 and vocalization
Brain lateralization and the emergence of language
Sensorimotor constraints and the organization of sound patterns
Symbol grounding and the origin of language: From show to tell
Part 4. Linguistic views on language origins
Sound patterns and conceptual content of the first words
Brave new words
On the origin of Grammar
Arbitrary signs and the emergence of language
On the relevance of pidgins and creoles in the debate on the origins of language
Part 5. Computational modeling of language origins
Modeling cultural evolution: Language acquisition as multiple-cue integration
How language emerges in situated embodied interactions
Emergence of communication and language in evolving robots
Evolving a bridge from praxis to language
Index
