14.140, Books: Lang Acquisition/Anthro Ling: Givon, Malle eds.

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Subject: 14.140, Books: Lang Acquisition/Anthro Ling: Givon, Malle eds.

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Date:  Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:35:57 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language

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Date:  Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:35:57 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language

Title: The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 53

Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL_53

Editor: T.  Givón, University of Oregon
Editor: Bertram F. Malle, University of Oregon

Hardback: ISBN: 1588112373, Pages: x, 394 pp., Price: USD 90.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027229597, Pages: x, 394 pp., Price: EUR 90.00
Paperback: ISBN: 1588112381, Pages: x, 394 pp., Price: USD 43.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9027229600, Pages: x, 394 pp., Price: EUR 44.00

Abstract:

The contributors to this volume are linguists, psychologists,
neuroscientists, primatologists, and anthropologists who share the
assumption that language, just as mind and brain, are products of
biological evolution. The rise of human language is not viewed as a
serendipitous mutation that gave birth to a unique linguistic organ,
but as a gradual, adaptive extension of pre-existing mental capacities
and brain structures. The contributors carefully study brain
mechanisms, diachronic change, language acquisition, and the parallels
between cognitive and linguistic structures to weave a web of
hypotheses and suggestive empirical findings on the origins of
language and the connections of language to other human
capacities. The chapters discuss brain pathways that support
linguistic processing; origins of specific linguistic features in
temporal and hierarchical structures of the mind; the possible
co-evolution of language and the reasoning about mental states; and
the aspects of language learning that may serve as models of
evolutionary change.

Table of Contents

The visual information-processing system as an evolutionary precursor
of human language
     T. Givón  3
Embodied meaning
     Don M. Tucker  51
Missing links, issues and hypotheses in the evolutionary origin of
language
     Charles N. Li  83
Sequentiality as the basis of constituent structure
     Joan L. Bybee  107
The internal structure of the syllable
     Barbara L. Davis and Peter F. Macneilage  133
On the origins of intersyllabic complexity
     Peter F. Macneilage and Barbara L. Davis  153
On the pre-linguistic origins of language processing rates
     Marjorie Barker and T. Givón  169
The clausal structure of linguistic and pre-linguistic behavior
     Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon and August Fenk  213
The gradual emergence of language
     Brian MacWhinney  231
The relation between language and theory of mind in development and
evolution
     Bertram F. Malle  263
The rise of intentional understanding in human development
     Dare A. Baldwin  283
The emergence of grammar in early child language
     Michael Tomasello  307
Why does exposure to language matter?
     Jill P. Morford  327
Getting a handle on language creation
     Susan Goldin-Meadow  341
Language evolution, acquisition, diachrony
     Dan I. Slobin  373

Lingfield(s):   Anthropological Linguistics
		Language Acquisition
		Psycholinguistics

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

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