Language Origins —— Perspectives on Evolution

----- 语言起源：对进化的看法

ISBN: 9780199279036 出版年：2005 页码：447 Oxford University Press

1. Introduction PART I EVOLUTION OF SPEECH AND SPEECH SOUNDS: HOW DID SPOKEN LANGUAGE EMERGE? Introduction to Part I: How did links between perception and production emerge for spoken language? 2. The Mirror System Hypothesis: How did protolanguage evolve? 3. How Did Language go Discrete? 4. From Holistic to Discrete Speech Sounds: The blind snowflake maker hypothesis 5. Infant-Directed Speech and Evolution of Language PART II EVOLUTION OF GRAMMAR: HOW DID SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY EMERGE? Introduction to Part II: Protolanguage and the Development of Complexity 6. Initial Syntax and Modern Syntax: Did the clause evolve from the syllable? 7. The Potential Role of Production in the Evolution of Syntax 8. The Evolutionary Origin of Morphology 9. The Evolution of Grammatical Structures and 'Functional Need' Explanations 10. Deception and Mate Selection: Some implications for relevance and the evolution of language PART III ANALOGOUS AND HOMOLOGOUS TRAITS: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM OTHER SPECIES? Introductin to Part III: The Broadening Scope of Animal Communication Research 11. An Avian Perspective on Language Evolution: Implications of simultaneous development of vocal and physical object combinations by a Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) 12. Linguistic Prerequisites in the Primate Lineage PART IV LEARNABILITY AND DIVERSITY: HOW DID LANGUAGES EMERGE AND DIVERGE? Introduction to Part IV: Computer Modelling Widens the Focus of Language Study 13. Cultural Selection for Learnability: Three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable 14. Coevolution of the Language Faculty and Language(s) With Decorrelated Encodings 15. Acquisition and Evolution of Quasi-regular Languages: Two puzzles for the price of one 16. Evolution of Language Diversity: Why fitness counts 17. Mutual Exclusivity: Communicative success despite conceptual divergence