1: Maggie Tallerman and Kathleen R. Gibson: Introduction: The
evolution of language
Part 1: Insights From Comparative Animal Behaviour
2: Kathleen R. Gibson and Maggie Tallerman: Introduction to Part 1:
Insights from comparative animal behaviour
3: Kathleen R. Gibson: Language or Protolanguage? A review of the
ape language literature
4: Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney: Primate Social
Cognition as a Precursor to Language
5: Klaus Zuberbühler: Cooperative Breeding and the Evolution of
Vocal Flexibility
6: Frans B. M. de Waal and Amy S. Pollick: Gesture as the Most
Flexible Modality of Primate Communication
7: Katie Slocombe: Have we Underestimated Great Ape Vocal
Capacities?
8: Peter Slater: Bird Song and Language
9: Vincent M. Janik: Vocal Communication and Cognition in
Cetaceans
10: Irene M. Pepperberg: Evolution of Communication and Language:
Insights from parrots and songbirds
11: Kathleen R. Gibson: Are Other Animals as Smart as Great Apes?
Do Others Provide Better Models for the Evolution of Speech or
Language?
Part 2: The Biology of Language Evolution: Anatomy, Genetics, and
Neurology
12: Kathleen R. Gibson and Maggie Tallerman: Introduction to Part
2: The Biology of Language Evolution: Anatomy, genetics, and
neurology
13: W. Tecumseh Fitch: Innateness and Human Language: A biological
perspective
14: Szabolcs Számadó and Eörs Szathmáry: Evolutionary Biological
Foundations of the Origin of Language: The co-evolution of language
and brain
15: Karl C. Diller and Rebecca L. Cann: Genetic Influences on
Languaeg Evolution: An evaluation of the evidence
16: Kathleen R. Gibson: Not the Neocortex Alone: Other brain
structures also contribute to speech and language
17: Merlin Donald: The Mimetic Origins of Language
18: William D. Hopkins and Jacques Vauclair: Evolution of
Behavioural and Brain Asymmetries in Primates
19: Wendy K. Wilkins: Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language
Through Comparative Neuroanatomy
20: Michael A. Arbib: Mirror Systems: Evolving imitation and the
bridge from praxis to language
21: Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn: Cognitive Prerequisites
for the Evolution of Indirect Speech
22: Ann MacLarnon: The Anatomical and Physiological Basis of Human
Speech production: Adaptations and exaptations
Part 3: The Pre-history of Language: When and Why Did Language
Evolve?
23: Kathleen R. Gibson and Maggie Tallerman: Introduction to Part
3: The pre-history of Language: When and why did language
evolve?
24: Rebecca L. Cann: Molecular Perspectives on Human Evolution
25: Bernard A. Wood and Amy L. Bauernfeind: The Fossil Record:
Evidence for speech in early hominins
26: Alan Mann: The Genus Homo and the Origins of 'Humanness'
27: Thomas Wynn: The Palaeolithic Record
28: Steven Mithen: Musicality and Language
29: Francesco d'Errico and Marian Vanhaeren: Linguistic
Implications of the Earliest Personal Ornaments
30: Rudolf Botha: Inferring Modern Language From Ancient
Objects
31: David Lightfoot: Natural Selection-itis
32: Dean Falk: The Role of Honimim Mothers and Infants in
Prelinguistic Evolution
33: Bart de Boer: Infant-directed Speech and Language Evolution
34: John L. Locke: Displays of Vocal and Verbal Complexity: A
fitness account of language, situated in development
35: Kathleen R. Gibson: Tool-dependent Foraging Strategies and the
Origin of Language
36: Robin I. M. Dunbar: Gossip and the Social Origins of
Langauge
37: Chris Knight and Camilla Power: Social Conditions for teh
Evolutionary Emergence of Language
Part 4: Launching Language: The Development of a Linguistic
Species
38: Maggie Tallerman and Kathleen R. Gibson: Introduction to Part
4: Launching Language: The development of a linguistic species
39: Stephen R. Anderson: The Role of Evolution in Shaping the Human
Language Faculty
40: James R. Hurford: The Origins of Meaning
41: Michael C. Corballis: The Origins of Language in Manual
Gestures
42: Stevan Harnad: From Sensorimotor Categories and Pantomime to
Grounded Symbols and Propositions
43: Terrence W. Deacon: The Symbol Concept
44: Robbins Burling: Words Came First: Adaptations for
word-learning
45: Michael Studdert-Kennedy: The Emergence of Phonetic Form
46: Peter F. MacNeilage: The Evolution of Phonology
47: Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy: The Evolution of Morphology
48: Maggie Tallerman: What is Syntax?
49: Derek Bickerton: The Origins of Syntactic Language
50: Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy: The Evolutionary Relevance of More
and Less Complex Forms of Language
51: Maggie Tallerman: Protolanguage
52: Cedric Boeckx: The Emergence of Language, From a Biolinguistic
Point of View
Part 5: Language Change, Creation, and Transmission
53: Maggie Tallerman and Kathleen R. Gibson: Introduction to Part
5: Language Change, Creation, and Transmission
54: Bernd heine and Tania Kuteva: Grammaticalization Theory as a
Tool for Reconstructing Language Evolution
55: Joan Bybee: Domain-general Processes as the Basis for
Grammar
56: Paul T. Roberge: Pidgins, Creoles, and the Creation of
Language
57: Susan Goldin-Meadow: What Modern-day Gesture can tell us About
Language Evolution
58: Johanna Nichols: Monogenesis or Polygenesis: A single ancestral
language for all humanity?
59: Brigitte Pakendorf: Prehistoric Population Contact and Language
Change
60: Kenny Smith: Why Formal Models are Useful for Evolutionary
Linguists
61: Simon Kirby: Language is an Adaptive System: The role of
cultural evolution in the origins of structure
62: Angelo Cangelosi: Robotics and Embodied Agents Modelling of the
Evolution of Language
63: Bart de Boer: Self-organization and Language Evolution
64: Katharing Graf Estes: Statistical Learning and Language
Acquisition
65: Nick Chater and Morten H. Christiansen: A Solution of the
Logical Problem of Language Evolution: Language as an adaptation to
the human brain
Maggie Tallerman is Professor of Linguistics at Newcastle
University. She has spent her professional life in North East
England, having previously taught for 21 years at Durham
University. Her research interests centre on the origins and
evolution of syntax and morphology; modern Brythonic Celtic syntax
and morphology; and language typology. Her publications include
Understanding Syntax (Hodder/OUPUSA, 1998; 3rd edn. 2011); with
Robert D. Borsley and David
Willis, The Syntax of Welsh (CUP, 2007); and, as editor, Language
Origins: Perspectives on Evolution (OUP, 2005). She is also the
editor of the series Palgrave Modern Linguistics.
Kathleen R. Gibson is Professor Emerita, Neurobiology and Anatomy,
University of Texas Houston. Her co-edited books include, with Sue
T. Parker, Language' and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes (CUP
1990); with Tim Ingold, Tools, Language, and Cognition in Human
Evolution (CUP 1993); with Paul Mellars, Modelling the Early Human
Mind (McDonald Archaeological Institute 1996); and, with Dean Falk,
Evolutionary Anatomy of the Human Neocortex (CUP 2001). She is
the
co-editor with James R. Hurford of the series, Oxford Studies in
the Evolution of Language.
This volume makes a significant contribution to furthering interest
in the evolution of language.
*Caroline Lyon, Interaction Studies*
admirably fulfills the promise that [the] title holds, which is to
gather together 62 of the best researchers on language
evolution
*Mark Aronoff, Evolutionary Linguistics*
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