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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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