The Biology of Language

Stanislaw Puppel

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This volume brings together 15 papers on the evolution and origin of language. The authors approach the subject from various angles, exploring biological, cultural, psychological and linguistic factors. A wide variety of topics is discussed, such as animal communication, language acquisition, the essentialist-evolutionist debate, and genetic classification.

[Not in series, 75] 1995. x, 300 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.75

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Acknowledgements	vii
Chimps, children and creoles: the need for caution Jean Aitchison	1
Some problems with an evolutionary view of written language David Barton	19
Essentialism in language: a convenient bu fallacious premise Bernard H. Bichakjian	33
The invention of the syllable: reflections of a humanist on the biology of language Robert Payson Creed	61
Genetic classification and the historical method Angela Della Volpe	73
Animal communication and human language: searching for their evolutionary relationship Gábor Győri	99
From proto-language to grammar: psychological considerations for the emergence of grammar in language evolution Martin Hildebrand-Nilshon	127
The biological imperatives in communicative interaction Mary Ritchie Key	147
Ritual/representation as the semiogenetic precursor of hominid symbol use Jo Liska	157
Language acquisition and the essentialist-evolutionist debate David J. Messer	173
Group selection in the biocultural evolution of language: fate of the Neanderthals revisited Richard G. Milo and Duane Quiatt	195
The biology of language: essentialist vs. evolutionist in the nature of language Harvey B. Sarles	221
A possibility of quantum evolution of language Wlodzimierz Sedlak	257
Biological and cultural factors in the evolution of language David Smillie	265
Index of names	277
Index of terms	289

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Nöth, Winfried

2015. In Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics [Biosemiotics, 13], ► pp. 151 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Evolution of language

Neurolinguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 94049701 | Marc record