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Date: 05-Apr-2010
From: Daniel Davies < ddavies at cambridge.org >
Subject: The Evolution of Language: Fitch
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:28:55
From: Daniel Davies [ddavies at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Evolution of Language: Fitch
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Title: The Evolution of Language
Publication Year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://us.cambridge.org
Author: W. Tecumseh Fitch
Hardback: ISBN: 9780521859936 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 120.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9780521859936 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 70.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780521677363 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 29.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9780521677363 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 55.00
Abstract:
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.
Introduction;
Part I. The Lay of the Land:
1. Language from a biological perspective;
2. Evolution;
3. Language;
4. Animal cognition and communication;
Part II. Meet the Ancestors:
5. Meet the ancestors;
6. The last common ancestor;
7. The hominid fossil record;
Part III. The Evolution of Speech:
8. The evolution of the human vocal tract;
9. The evolution of vocal control;
10. Modelling the evolution of speech;
Part IV. Phylogenetic Models of Language Evolution:
11. Language evolution before Darwin;
12. Lexical protolanguage;
13. Gestural protolanguage;
14. Musical protolanguage;
15. Conclusions & prospects.
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Cognitive Science
General Linguistics
History of Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Written In: English (eng)
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