Show Summary Details
- Title Pages
- Preface and acknowledgements
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Notes on the contributors
-
1 Introduction: rewards and challenges of multi‐perspectival work on the evolution of language and speech -
2 Why only humans have language -
3 Is sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language?* -
4 Holistic communication and the co‐evolution of language and music: resurrecting an old idea -
5 Music as a communicative medium -
6 Cultural niche construction: evolution's cradle of language* -
7 Playing with meaning: normative function and structure in play -
8 The ontogeny and phylogeny of non‐verbal deixis* -
9 The directed scratch: evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees?* -
10 The origins of the lexicon: how a word‐store evolved* -
11 Language: symbolization and beyond* -
12 Grammaticalization from a biolinguistic perspective* -
13 Recursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech -
14 Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution) -
15 Mosaic neurobiology and anatomical plausibility* - References
- Index
(p.viii) List of figures
(p.viii) List of figures
- Source:
- The Prehistory of Language
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
- Title Pages
- Preface and acknowledgements
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Notes on the contributors
-
1 Introduction: rewards and challenges of multi‐perspectival work on the evolution of language and speech -
2 Why only humans have language -
3 Is sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language?* -
4 Holistic communication and the co‐evolution of language and music: resurrecting an old idea -
5 Music as a communicative medium -
6 Cultural niche construction: evolution's cradle of language* -
7 Playing with meaning: normative function and structure in play -
8 The ontogeny and phylogeny of non‐verbal deixis* -
9 The directed scratch: evidence for a referential gesture in chimpanzees?* -
10 The origins of the lexicon: how a word‐store evolved* -
11 Language: symbolization and beyond* -
12 Grammaticalization from a biolinguistic perspective* -
13 Recursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech -
14 Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution) -
15 Mosaic neurobiology and anatomical plausibility* - References
- Index
