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| List of contributors | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: new approaches to language evolution | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Grounding language function in social cognition | |
| 1 | Introduction: grounding language function in social cognition | 9 |
| 2 | On discontinuing the continuity-discontinuity debate | 17 |
| 3 | The origin of language and cognition | 30 |
| 4 | Mimesis and the Executive Suite: missing links in language evolution | 44 |
| 5 | Ritual/speech coevolution: a solution to the problem of deception | 68 |
| 6 | Theory of mind and the evolution of language | 92 |
| 7 | Old wives' tales: the gossip hypothesis and the reliability of cheap signals | 111 |
| 8 | Altruism, status and the origin of relevance | 130 |
| 9 | The evolution of language from social intelligence | 148 |
| Pt. II | The emergence of phonology | |
| 10 | Introduction: the emergence of phonology | 169 |
| 11 | Long-call structure in apes as a possible precursor for language | 177 |
| 12 | Social sound-making as a precursor to spoken language | 190 |
| 13 | The particulate origins of language generativity: from syllable to gesture | 202 |
| 14 | Evolution of the mechanisms of language output: comparative neurobiology of vocal and manual communication | 222 |
| 15 | Systemic constraints and adaptive change in the formation of sound structure | 242 |
| 16 | The development of sound systems in human language | 265 |
| 17 | Synonymy avoidance, phonology and the origin of syntax | 279 |
| Pt. III | The emergence of syntax | |
| 18 | Introduction: the emergence of syntax | 299 |
| 19 | On the supposed 'counterfunctionality' of Universal Grammar: some evolutionary implications | 305 |
| 20 | Language evolution and the Minimalist Program: the origins of syntax | 320 |
| 21 | Catastrophic evolution: the case for a single step from protolanguage to full human language | 341 |
| 22 | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language | 359 |
| 23 | Synthesizing the origins of language and meaning using coevolution, self-organization and level formation | 384 |
| 24 | Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar | 405 |
| Index | 427 |
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Sohail Khan
reviewed Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases on August 24, 2012 Approaches to the Evolution of Language
This is a really good introduction to discourse analysis for those who have no previous notions of this subject, although it is necessary a basic knowledge of linguistics and syntaxis in order to understand it to its fullest level.
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