Studies in language origins. Volume 2 /
The question of language origin has fascinated people for years. The contributions in the present book stem primarely from the papers presented at the Third International Meeting of the Language Origins Society (LOS) held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, June 1988. The contributors...
| Други автори: | Von Raffler-Engel, Walburga, 1920-2009., Wind, Jan., Jonker, Abraham. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1991.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=430007 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Studies in Language Origins : Volume 2. |
Съдържание:
- STUDIES IN LANGUAGE ORIGINS; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Why study the origin of language?; The origin of language according to the Bible; Summary; Introduction; 2. What's at stake in the fight over "creation science"?; 3. What is creation science?; 4. What is the biblical picture of creation?; 5. What's at stake for creationists?; 6. What's at stake for others?; 7. Conclusion; The development of symbolic communication in apes and early hominids; Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Project Chantek; 3. Vocabulary acquisition.
- 4. Discourse ability5. Pointing and reference; 6. Semantic domain; 7. Displaced reference; 8. Foot signing; 9. Deception; 10. Symbolic play; 11. Language origins; Acknowledgments; REFERENCES; Relationships of language evolution to hominid population expansion from Lower Paleolithic times onward; Summary; REFERENCES; The origin of human language; Summary; Introduction; 2. A naturalistic description of language; 3. Language as an acquired characteristic; 4. The influence of the environment in the development of the brain and the origin of Broca's area; REFERENCES.
- On the origins of language and self-consciousnessSummary; 1. Introduction; 2. Human communication and self-consciousness; 3. Chimpanzee communication; 4. Chimpanzee 'self-consciousness'; 5. The emergence of speech and self-consciousness; 6. Conclusion; NOTE; REFERENCES; Evolution of the cerebellum: Did it contribute to the evolution of language?; Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Evolution of the cerebellum in apes and humans; 3. Evolution of cerebeUar projections to the cerebral cortex; 4. Evolution of cerebellar "learning loops"; 5. Summary and conclusions; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES.
- Are male and female Homo sapiens selected for different auditory stimuli?Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Methods and procedures; 3. Results; 4. Discussion; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; APPENDIX; Defining language; Summary; NOTES; REFERENCES; Processes of communication in the origins of language; Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Intentional communication; 3. Symbolic communication; 4. Linguistic communication; 5. Conclusion; REFERENCES; On dating the origin of the modern form of language; Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Some groundwork; 3. Physical changes in the fossil record and their interpretation.
- 4. The evidence5. Summary and conclusions; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Signing & speaking: competitors, alternatives, or incompatibles?; Summary; REFERENCES; The motor theory of language; Summary; PART I; PART II; 1. Elements of mosaic evolution; 2. Selective value of language; 3. Categorical perception of speech sounds; 4. Cross-modal components in speech, action and vision; 5. Innate and acquired motor programs; 6. Evolution and ontogeny of motor/speech neural connections; 7. Motor control and vision; 8. Motor control and articulation; 9. Motor programs and elementary motor units.
- 10. Motor control research
- biological and robotic.