ISBN:
0-933452-60-8
,
978-0-933452-60-2
,
0-933452-59-4 /Hb.
,
978-0-933452-59-6 /Hb.
,
0-85255-904-6
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978-0-85255-904-8
,
0-85255-903-8 /Hb.
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978-0-85255-903-1 /Hb.
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 442 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [50]
Keywords:
Sprache Primate
;
Kommunikation
;
Evolution
Abstract:
Is human language unique in the animal world, or does it have meaningful precursors in animal communication? In The Origins of Language, ten primatologists and paleoanthropologists conduct a comprehensive examination of the nonhuman primate data, discussing different views of what language is and suggesting how the primatological perspective can be used to fashion more rigorous theories of language origins and evolution. Together, the essays make a powerful case against the position that language is an innate biological system unique to humans and demonstrate that many aspects of language likely have a long evolutionary history-one that extends back beyond hominids to encompass our closest living relatives in the animal world. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- Introduction: Primatological Perspectives on Language, Barbara J. King -- Viewed from Up Close: Monkeys, Apes, and Language-Origins Theories, Barbara J. King -- Primate Social Organization, Gestural Repertoire Size, and Communication Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Macaques, Dario Maestripieri -- An Empiricist View of Language Evolution and Development, Charles T. Snowdon -- Ape Language: Between a Rock and Hard Place, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh -- Language Evolution and Expansions of Multiple Neurological Processing Areas, Kathleen R. Gibson and Stephen Jessee -- The Game of the Name: Continuity and Discontinuity in Language Origins, Iain Davidson -- Children`s Transition ot Language: A Human Model for Development of the Vocal Repertoire in Extant and Ancestral Primate Species? Lorriane McCune -- Motivation, Conventionalization, and Arbitrariness in the Origin of Language, Robbins Burling -- The Invention and Ritualization of Language, Sherman Wilcox -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 385-432"School of American Research advanced seminar The Evolution of Language: Assessing the Evidence from Nonhuman Primates, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 1996" (letzte Seite)Enthält 10 Beiträge
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