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Author : James R. Hurford,Michael Studdert-Kennedy,Chris Knight
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521639646
This book considers language within the framework of modern evolutionary theory, emphasising its social bases.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1419198752
Author : W. Tecumseh Fitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139487061
Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and not in others? Since Darwin's theory of evolution, questions about the origin of language have generated a rapidly-growing scientific literature, stretched across a number of disciplines, much of it directed at specialist audiences. The diversity of perspectives - from linguistics, anthropology, speech science, genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology - can be bewildering. Tecumseh Fitch cuts through this vast literature, bringing together its most important insights to explore one of the biggest unsolved puzzles of human history.
Author : Richard K. Larson,Viviane Déprez,Hiroko Yamakido
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521736250
The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such standpoints, including language's genetic basis, the anthropological context of its appearance, its formal structure, its relation to systems of cognition and thought, as well as its possible evolutionary antecedents. The book includes Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch's seminal and provocative essay on the subject, 'The Faculty of Language,' and charts the progress of research in this active and highly controversial field since its publication in 2002. This timely volume will be welcomed by researchers and students in a number of disciplines, including linguistics, evolutionary biology, psychology, and cognitive science.
Author : Wolfgang Wildgen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027295453
Wolfgang Wildgen presents three perspectives on the evolution of language as a key element in the evolution of mankind in terms of the development of human symbol use. (1) He approaches this question by constructing possible scenarios in which mechanisms necessary for symbolic behavior could have developed, on the basis of the state of the art in evolutionary anthropology and genetics. (2) Non-linguistic symbolic behavior such as cave art is investigated as an important clue to the developmental background to the origin of language. Creativity and innovation and a population's ability to integrate individual experiments are considered with regard to historical examples of symbolic creativity in the visual arts and natural sciences. (3) Probable linguistic 'fossils' of such linguistic innovations are examined. The results of this study allow for new proposals for a 'protolanguage' and for a theory of language within a broader philosophical and semiotic framework, and raises interesting questions as to human consciousness, universal grammar, and linguistic methodology. (Series B)
Author : W. Tecumseh Fitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521859936
This book brings together the most important insights from the vast amount of literature on the origin of language.
Author : Angelo Cangelosi,Domenico Parisi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447106630
This book is the first to provide a comprehensive survey of the computational models and methodologies used for studying the evolution and origin of language and communication. Comprising contributions from the most influential figures in the field, it presents and summarises the state-of-the-art in computational approaches to language evolution, and highlights new lines of development. Essential reading for researchers and students in the fields of evolutionary and adaptive systems, language evolution modelling and linguistics, it will also be of interest to researchers working on applications of neural networks to language problems. Furthermore, due to the fact that language evolution models use multi-agent methodologies, it will also be of great interest to computer scientists working on multi-agent systems, robotics and internet agents.
Author : Rudolf Botha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107135130
Addresses the question: how can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it?
Author : Anna R. Kinsella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521895309
Discusses the relationship between Chomskyan syntactic theory and the evolution of language.
Author : Richard D. Janda,Brian D. Joseph,Barbara S. Vance
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118732267
An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics. This brand-new, second volume of The Handbook of Historical Linguistics is a complement to the well-established first volume first published in 2003. It includes extended content allowing uniquely comprehensive coverage of the study of language(s) over time. Though it adds fresh perspectives on several topics previously treated in the first volume, this Handbook focuses on extensions of diachronic linguistics beyond those key issues. This Handbook provides readers with studies of language change whose perspectives range from comparisons of large open vs. small closed corpora, via creolistics and linguistic contact in general, to obsolescence and endangerment of languages. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, new chapters are offered on matters such as the origin of language, evidence from language for reconstructing human prehistory, invocations of language present in studies of language past, benefits of linguistic fieldwork for historical investigation, ways in which not only biological evolution but also field biology can serve as heuristics for research into the rise and spread of linguistic innovations, and more. Moreover, it: offers novel and broadened content complementing the earlier volume so as to provide the fullest available overview of a wholly engrossing field includes 23 all-new contributed chapters, treating some familiar themes from fresh perspectives but mostly covering entirely new topics features expanded discussion of material from language families other than Indo-European provides a multiplicity of views from numerous specialists in linguistic diachrony. The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II is an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, researchers and professional linguists, as well as all those interested in the history of particular languages and the history of language more generally.
Author : William Croft
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0582356776
William Croft's text weaves together recent research findings from sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, grammatical change, pragmatics, social variation, language contact and genetic linguistics.
Author : Ljiljana Progovac
Publisher : Springer
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030032357
This book provides a critical introduction to the current views and controversies regarding language evolution. It sheds new light on hot topics such as: How ancient is language? Did Neanderthals have some form of language? Did language evolve gradually and incrementally, through stages, or suddenly, in one leap, in all its complexity? Does language evolution involve natural selection or not? This book is essential reading for scholars and students interested in language evolution, especially those in the fields of linguistics, psychology, biology, anthropology, and neuroscience.
Author : Salikoko S. Mufwene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521791383
This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for genetic linguistics. Written by an internationally renowned linguist, the book surveys a wide range of examples of changes in the structure, function and vitality of languages, and suggests that similar ecologies have played the same kinds of roles in all cases of language evolution. The Ecology of Language Evolution will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, creolistics, theoretical linguistics and theories of evolution.
Author : Bernard Laks
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131661972
Debates the issues in the field of the origin and evolution of language through interdisciplinary perspectives from linguistics (different branches thereof), philosophy, history and prehistory, archaeology, anthropology, genetics, computer-modelling.
Author : Morten H. Christiansen,Simon Kirby
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191581663
What is it that makes us human? This is one of the most challenging and important questions we face. Our species' defining characteristic is language - we appear to be unique in the natural world in having such an incredibly open-ended system for putting thoughts into words. If we are to truly understand ourselves as a species we must understand the origins of this strange and unique ability. To do so, we need to answer some of the most intriguing questions in contemporary scientific research: Where did language come from? How did it evolve? Why are we unique in possessing it? This book, for the first time, brings together the leading thinkers who are trying to unlock the puzzle of language evolution. Here we see the latest ideas and theories from fields as diverse as anthropology, archaeology, artificial life, biology, cognitive science, linguistics, neuroscience, and psychology. In a series of seventeen well-written and accessible chapters we get an unrivalled view of the state of the art in this exciting area. Current controversies are revealed and new perspectives uncovered, in a clear and readable guide to the latest theories. This collection marks a major step forward in our quest to understand the origins and evolution of human language. In doing so it sheds new light on the process of evolution, the workings of the brain, the structure of language, and - most importantly - what it means to be human. Language Evolution is essential reading for researchers and students working in the areas covered, and has been used as a textbook for courses in the field. It will also attract the general reader who wants to know more about this fascinating subject.