An edition of The prehistory of language
(2009)
The prehistory of language
by Rudolf P. Botha and Chris Knight
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Table of Contents
Introduction:
Rewards and challenges of multi-perspectival work on the evolution of language and speech -- Rudolf Botha
Why only humans have language -- Robin Dunbar
Is sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language? -- Luc Steels
Holistic communication and the co-evolution of language and music : resurrecting an old idea -- Steven Mithen
Music as a communicative medium -- Ian Cross and Ghofur Eliot Woodruff
Cultural niche construction : evolution's cradle of language -- John Odling-Smee and Kevin N. Laland
Playing with meaning : normative function and structure in play -- Sonia Ragir and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
The ontogeny and phylogeny of non-verbal deixis -- David A. Leavens, Timothy P. Racine, and William D. Hopkins
The directed scratch : evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees? -- Simone Pika and John C. Mitani
The origins of the lexicon : how a word-store evolved -- Maggie Tallerman
Language : symbolization and beyond -- Eric Reuland
Grammaticalization from a biolinguistic perspective -- Elly van Gelderen
Recursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech -- Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn
Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution) -- Bart de Boer
Mosaic neurobiology and anatomical plausibility -- Wendy K. Wilkins.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-334) and index.
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