The evolution of language / W. Tecumseh Fitch.
Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2010.Description: xii, 610 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780521859936
- 052185993X
- 9780521677363 (pbk.)
- 052167736X (pbk.)
- 417.7 22
- P116 .F58 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [521]-604) and index.
The lay of the land. Language from a biological perspective ; Evolution : consensus and controversy ; Language ; Animal cognition and communication -- Meet the ancestors. Meet the ancestors ; The LCA : our last common ancestor with chimpanzees ; Hominid paleontology and archaeology -- The evolution of speech. The evolution of the human vocal tract ; The evolution of vocal control : the neural basis for spoken language ; Models of the evolution of speech and phonology -- Evaluating phylogenetic models of language evolution. Historical overview : Western theories of language origin before Darwin ; Lexical protolanguage ; Signs before speech : gestural protolanguage theories ; Musical protolanguage.