OUP Handbook of Language Evolution
Eds. Maggie Tallerman & Kathleen Gibson
Outline as at 7 August 2008. All titles are provisional. Order of chapters has not yet been determined.
Part 1 (Cognition and communication in other species)
Robert Seyfarth & Dorothy Cheney
Primate social cognition as a precursor to language.
Frans B.M. de Waal & Amy S. Pollick
Ape communication hints at the role of gesture in language evolution
Klaus Zuberbühler
The primate roots of human language: Natural communication skills in monkeys and apes
Kathleen Gibson awaiting title and abstract
Ape language research. Tool use and manipulation; cognitive skills.
Peter Slater
Vincent M. Janik
Vocal communication and cognition in cetaceans
David Premack awaiting title and abstract
Animal
cognition and communication: an overview
Part 2 (The biology of language: morphology and genetics)
Ann MacLarnon
The anatomical and physiological basis of human speech production: adaptations and exaptations
Wendy Wilkins
Biological plausibility and comparative anatomy
William D. Hopkins & Jacques Vauclair
Michael Arbib
Mirror Systems: evolving imitation and the bridge from praxis to language
Jim Hurford
The significance of mirror neurons for language evolution
Frederick L. Coolidge & Thomas Wynn
Working memory and the evolution of language
Rebecca Cann & Karl Diller
Genetic influences on language evolution: an evaluation of the evidence
Brigitte Pakendorf
Prehistoric population contact and language change
Awaiting author
Language disorders. Specific language impairment and what it might tell us about language evolution; development disorders (KE family).
Part 3 (Pre-history of language: archaeology, social & cognitive evolution)
Bernard Wood
Early hominin fossil record and the hard-tissue evidence for language evolution
Alan Mann
Evolution of the genus Homo and the origins of ‘Humanness’
Awaiting author
Out
of
Bill Calvin awaiting title and abstract
Climatic and environmental changes and their relevance to encephalization and language evolution
Co-evolution of paleolithic technology and grammatical speech
Francesco d'Errico & Marian Vanhaeren
Linguistic implications of the earliest personal ornaments
Rudolf Botha
Inferring language from prehistoric objects
Terrence Deacon
The
symbol concept: History, semiotic foundation, neural and evolutionary
significance
Szabolcs Számadó & Eörs Szathmáry
Evolutionary biological foundations of the origin of language
Scenarios and specific selection pressures in
language
evolution.
(i). Robin Dunbar, Reconstructing the origins of language
(ii). Dean Falk, The role of hominin mothers and infants in prelinguistic evolution
(iii). Chris Knight & Camilla Power, Social conditions for the emergence of language
(iv). Kathleen Gibson, foraging. awaiting title
(vi). Steve Mithen, Musicality and language origins
(vii) William Calvin (on throwing) awaiting title
(viii) Merlin Donald, The mimetic origins of language
(ix) Stevan Harnad, From sensorimotor categories to grounded symbols: The transition from praxis, pointing and pantomime to propositions
Part 4 (Launching language: the development of a linguistic species)
Robbins Burling
What had to evolve to let us talk?
W. Tecumseh Fitch
What’s innate about human language? An epigenetic perspective
Maggie Tallerman awaiting title and abstract
What’s special about syntax?
John Locke
Vocal and verbal displays. A fitness account of language, situated in development
Peter MacNeilage
Bart de Boer
Infant-directed speech and language evolution
Bart de Boer
Self-organization and language evolution
Katharine Graf-Estes
Statistical language learning and language acquisition
Maggie
Tallerman awaiting abstract
The protolanguage debate
Michael C. Corballis
Derek Bickerton
The origins of syntax:
beyond nature vs. nurture
Kenny Smith
Why formal models are useful for evolutionary linguists
Simon Kirby
Language is an adaptive system: the role of cultural evolution in the origins of structure
Morten Christiansen & Nick Chater
A
solution to the
logical problem of language evolution: Language as an adaptation to the
human
Angelo Cangelosi
Link/discussion
Bernd Heine &
Tania Kuteva
Grammatalization theory as a tool for reconstructing language evolution
James R. Hurford
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Have all languages evolved to a state of equal complexity?
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Cedric Boeckx
Darwin’s
problem in a biolinguistic setting
David Lightfoot
Paul Roberge
Pidgins, creoles, and the creation of language
Susan Goldin-Meadow
What modern-day gesture can tell us about language evolution
Johanna Nichols
A single ancestral language
for all humanity?
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