Studies in Language Origins
Volume 3
This collection brings together the best papers presented at recent meetings of the Language Origins Society. The volume reflects the diversity of approaches from many disciplines that are used to unravel the mystery of the origin of language: linguistics, anatomy, physiology, paleoanthropology, neuropsychology, physical anthropology, evolutionary biology and psychology.
[Not in series, LOS 3] 1994. xx, 344 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Notes on contributors | p. vii
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Introduction by the editors | p. xv
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1. A functional reconstruction of the supralaryngeal vocal tract of the fossil hominid from PetralonaIvo Budil | p. 1
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2. A much-too-brief evolutionary history of the mammalian middle earHal J. Daniel | p. 21
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3. Spatial mapping and the origin of language: A paleoneurological modelRon Wallace | p. 31
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4. Some acoustic properties of baby-talk and the prototype effect in infant speech perceptionBarbara L. Davis and Björn Lindblom | p. 45
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5. Cerebral lateralization for cognitive and linguistic abilities: Neuropsychological and cultural aspectsTatiana V. Chernigovskaya | p. 55
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6. Echolocation: An acoustic causal function. Semiotic and linguistic aspectsHans Fründt | p. 77
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7. Further evidence of verbal and non-verbal communication between the mother and her unborn child in the womb — in support of the author’s theory of the bi-modal origin of languageWalburga von Raffler-Engel | p. 91
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8. The Neanderthals: The origins of language and human consciousness?Abraham Jonker | p. 101
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9. Motor theory of language origin: The diversity of languagesRobin Allott | p. 125
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10. Sign arbitrariness as an index of semiogenesisJo Liska | p. 161
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11. Language as analogic strategy: Suggestions for evolutionary researchMary LeCron Foster | p. 179
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12. Vocal/auditory cognitive mapping, shared meaning and consciousnessSonia Ragir | p. 205
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13. Historical motivation in the linguistic sign and its cognitive originGábor Győri | p. 221
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14. The red marbles of phonological and semantic stability through the agesMary Ritchie Key | p. 235
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15. The elaboration of language structureDouglas McArthur | p. 247
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16. The use of the scenario method in the historical sciencesWilliam Greenhood and James Cooke Brown | p. 259
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17. Developments in the pongid and human motor systems as preadaptations for the evolution of human language abilityJenny Kien | p. 271
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18. The gestural origin of language and new neurological dataGordon W. Hewes | p. 293
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19. Memory for personal information: Have names become special?A. Mike Burton | p. 309
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Name index | p. 325
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Subject index | p. 333
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General