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In:The Biology of Language
Stanislaw Puppel
[Not in series 75] 1995
► pp. ix–x

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Published online: 27 July 1995
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Table of contents

Prefacev
Acknowledgementsvii
Chimps, children and creoles: the need for caution1
Some problems with an evolutionary view of written language19
Essentialism in language: a convenient bu fallacious premise33
The invention of the syllable: reflections of a humanist on the biology of language61
Genetic classification and the historical method73
Animal communication and human language: searching for their evolutionary relationship99
From proto-language to grammar: psychological considerations for the emergence of grammar in language evolution127
The biological imperatives in communicative interaction147
Ritual/representation as the semiogenetic precursor of hominid symbol use157
Language acquisition and the essentialist-evolutionist debate173
Group selection in the biocultural evolution of language: fate of the Neanderthals revisited195
The biology of language: essentialist vs. evolutionist in the nature of language221
A possibility of quantum evolution of language257
Biological and cultural factors in the evolution of language265
Index of names277
Index of terms289
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