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Author:   Rudolf Botha (, University of Stellenbosch) ,  Chris Knight (, University of East London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   11
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.696kg
ISBN:  

9780199545872

ISBN 10:   0199545871
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   23 April 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Rewards and Challenges of Multi-perspectival Work on the Evolution of Language and Speech, Rudolf Botha 2. Why Only Humans Have Language, Robin Dunbar 3. Is Sociality a Crucial Prerequisite for the Emergence of Language?, Luc Steels 4. Holistic Communication and the Co-evolution of Language and Music: Resurrecting an Old Idea, Steven Mithen 5. Music as a Communicative Medium, Ian Cross and Ghofur Eliot Woodruff 6. Cultural Niche construction: Evolution's Cradle of Language, John Odling-Smee and Kevin N. Laland 7. Playing With Meaning: Normative Function and Structure in Play, Sonia Ragir and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh 8. The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Non-verbal Deixis, David A. Leavens, Timothy P. Racine, and William D. Hopkins 9. The Directed Scratch: Evidence for a Referential Gesture in Chimpanzees?, Simone Pika and John C. Mitani 10. The Origins of the Lexicon: How a Word-store Evolved, Maggie Tallerman 11. Language-symbolization and Beyond, Eric Reuland 12. Grammaticalization From a Biolinguistic Perspective, Elly van Gelderen 13. Recursion, Phonological Storage Capacity, and the Evolution of Modern Speech, Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn 14. Why Women Speak Better Than Men and its Significance for Evolution, Bart de Boer 15. Mosaic Neurobiology and Anatomical Plausibility, Wendy K. WIlkins References Index

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Rudolf Botha is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Stellenbosch, and a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. His books include Form and Meaning in Word Formation: A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication (CUP 1988) and Unravelling the Evolution of Language (Elsevier 2003). Chris Knight is Professor of Anthropology at the University of East London. His publicatons include Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture (Yale UP 1995).

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