Studies in Language Origins

Volume 3

Editors

Jan Wind

Abraham Jonker

Robin Allott

Leonard Rolfe

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027239556 (Eur) | EUR 135.00

ISBN 9781556194979 (USA) | USD 203.00

e-Book –

ISBN 9789027274250 | EUR 135.00 | USD 203.00

This collection brings together the best papers presented at recent meetings of the Language Origins Society. The volume reflects the diversity of approaches from many disciplines that are used to unravel the mystery of the origin of language: linguistics, anatomy, physiology, paleoanthropology, neuropsychology, physical anthropology, evolutionary biology and psychology.

[Not in series, LOS 3] 1994. xx, 344 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.los3

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Introduction by the editors	xv
1. A functional reconstruction of the supralaryngeal vocal tract of the fossil hominid from Petralona Ivo Budil	1
2. A much-too-brief evolutionary history of the mammalian middle ear Hal J. Daniel	21
3. Spatial mapping and the origin of language: A paleoneurological model Ron Wallace	31
4. Some acoustic properties of baby-talk and the prototype effect in infant speech perception Barbara L. Davis and Björn Lindblom	45
5. Cerebral lateralization for cognitive and linguistic abilities: Neuropsychological and cultural aspects Tatiana V. Chernigovskaya	55
6. Echolocation: An acoustic causal function. Semiotic and linguistic aspects Hans Fründt	77
7. Further evidence of verbal and non-verbal communication between the mother and her unborn child in the womb — in support of the author’s theory of the bi-modal origin of language Walburga von Raffler-Engel	91
8. The Neanderthals: The origins of language and human consciousness? Abraham Jonker	101
9. Motor theory of language origin: The diversity of languages Robin Allott	125
10. Sign arbitrariness as an index of semiogenesis Jo Liska	161
11. Language as analogic strategy: Suggestions for evolutionary research Mary LeCron Foster	179
12. Vocal/auditory cognitive mapping, shared meaning and consciousness Sonia Ragir	205
13. Historical motivation in the linguistic sign and its cognitive origin Gábor Győri	221
14. The red marbles of phonological and semantic stability through the ages Mary Ritchie Key	235
15. The elaboration of language structure Douglas McArthur	247
16. The use of the scenario method in the historical sciences William Greenhood and James Cooke Brown	259
17. Developments in the pongid and human motor systems as preadaptations for the evolution of human language ability Jenny Kien	271
18. The gestural origin of language and new neurological data Gordon W. Hewes	293
19. Memory for personal information: Have names become special? A. Mike Burton	309
Name index	325
Subject index	333

Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Evolution of language

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

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