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In:Studies in Language Origins: Volume 1
Edited by Jan Wind, Edward G. Pulleyblank, Éric de Grolier and Bernard H. Bichakjian
[Not in series LOS 1] 1989
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 1 January 1989
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Table of contents

Notes on contributorsvii
Introduction: Language origins: A fresh startxv
The origin of language: The general problem1
Gesture and deixis25
Moulded gestures and guided syntax: Scenario of a linguistic breakthrough33
A student of oral traditions looks at the origins of language43
The meaning of duality of patterning and its importance in language evolution53
Language origins and the red marble theory67
Glossogenesis in endolinguistic and exolinguistic perspective: Palaeoanthropological data73
The Upper Palaeolithic expansion of supernaturalism and the advent of fully developed spoken language139
The domestication of fire and the origins of language159
The evolutionary history of the human speech organs173
The Aquatic Ape Theory and the origin of speech199
Language innateness and speech pathology209
Language origin and the Island of Reil (Insula Reilii)233
The vestibular system and language evolution257
Acoustical communication in birds and its differences from human language273
Speech act taxonomy, chimpanzee communication, and the evolutionary basis of language283
Author index305
Subject index313
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