The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form Book

Part I. The Evolution of Cooperative Communication:

1. Introduction: the evolution of cooperative communication Chris Knight;
2. Comprehension, production and conventionalization in the origins of language Robbins Burling;
3. Co-operation, competition and the evolution of pre-linguistic communication Jason Noble;
4. Language and hominid politics Jean-Louis Dessalles;
5. Secret language use at female initiation: bounding gossiping communities Camilla Power;
6. Play as precursor of phonology and syntax Chris Knight;

Part II. The Emergence of Phonetic Structure:
7. Introduction: the emergence of phonetic structure Michael Studdert-Kennedy;
8. The role of mimesis in infant language development: evidence for phylogeny? Marilyn M. Vihman and Rory A. DePaolis;
9. Evolution of speech: the relation between ontogeny and phylogeny Peter J. MacNeilage and Barbara L. Davis;
10. Evolutionary implications of the particulate principle: imitation and the dissociation of phonetic form from semantic function Michael Studdert-Kennedy;
11. Emergence of sound systems through self-organisation Bart de Boer;
12. Modelling language-physiology coevolution Daniel Livingstone and Colin Fyfe;

Part III. The Evolution of Syntax:
13. The emergence of syntax James R. Hurford;
14. The spandrels of the linguistic genotype David Lightfoot;
15. The distinction between sentences and noun phrases: an impediment to language evolution? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy;
16. How protolanguage became language Derek Bickerton;
17. Holistic utterances in protolanguage: the link from primates to humans Alison Wray;
18. Syntax without natural selection: how compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners Simon Kirby;
19. Social transmission favours linguistic generalization James R. Hurford;
20. Words, memes and language evolution Robert P. Worden;
21. On the reconstruction of 'proto-world' word order Frederick J. Newmeyer; Epilogue;
22. The history, rate and pattern of world linguistic evolution Mark Pagel.