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1 online resource (xviii, 532 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Is grammaticalization glossogenetic? / Giorgos P. Argyropoulos -- Mythology and the evolution of language / Alan Barnard -- Symmetrical artefacts, internal reward and language precursors in the head / Brian Bayly -- Linguistic adaptation at work? The change of word order and case system from Latin to the Romance languages / Christian Bentz, Morten H. Christiansen -- Invariants and variation in biology and language evolution / Robert C. Berwick -- From neurons to signs / Denis Bouchard -- Cultural ratcheting results primarily from semantic compression / Joanna J. Bryson -- Iterated learning of multiple languages from multiple teachers / David Burkett, Thomas L. Griffiths -- On protolinguistic 'fossils' : subject-verb vs. verb-subject structures / Eugenia Casielles, Ljiljana Progovac -- Numerosity, abstraction, and the emergence of metaphor in language / Frederick L. Coolidge, Thomas Wynn -- Self-organization and emergence in language, a case study for color / Joachim De Beule, Joris Bleys -- Prosodic features in northern Muriquis vocalizations / Didier Demolin, César Ades, Fransisco D.C. Mendes -- Have you anything unexpected to say? The human propensity to communicate surprise and its role in the emergence of language / Jean-Louis Dessalles -- The innateness of language : a view from genetics / Karl C. Diller, Rebecca L. Cann -- A new theory of language and its implications for the question of evolution / Daniel Dor, Eva Jablonka -- Horizontal transmission of call features in killer whale dialects / Olga A. Filatova, Erich Hoyt, Alexandr M. Burdin -- Information and influence in animal communication / Julia Fischer, Kurt Hammerschmidt -- A molecular genetic framework for testing hypotheses about language evolution / W. Tecumseh Fitch, Michael A. Arbib, Merlin Donald -- Emergence of Aktionsarten : the first step towards aspect / Kateryna Gerasymova -- Talking about birds, bees, and primates too. Implications for language evolution / Kathleen R. Gibson -- The effect of social popularities on linguistic categorization / Tao Gong -- Exploring the roles of major forms of cultural transmission in language evolution / Tao Gong -- How To identify the units, levels and mechanisms of language evolution / Nathalie Gontier -- Linguistic analogy for creativity and the origin of language / Takashi Hashimoto, Masaya Nakatsuka, Takeshi Konno -- Applications of the price equation to language evolution / Gerhard Jäger -- Interplay between language, navigation and kin selection / Dimitar Kazakov -- Children learn sound symbolic words better : evolutionary vestige of sound symbolic proto language / Sotaro Kita, Katerina Kantartzis, Mutsumi Imai -- A sensorimotor characterisation of syntax, and its implications for models of language evolution / Alistair Knott -- Why robots? / Martin Loetzsch, Michael Spranger -- Linguistic arguments probably antedate linguistic predicates / Erkki Luuk -- Towards a simulation model of dialogical alignment / Alexander Mehler [and others] -- Evolution of grammatical forms / Mieko Ogura, William S-Y Wang -- The silence of the stones : on the archaeological record for (Neandertal) language / Wil Roebroeks -- Minimum description length and generalization in the evolution of language / Giancarlo Schrementi, Michael Gasser -- Thoughts on evolution of language from the point of view of brain neuroanatomy and development, and object-oriented programming / H. Lee Seldon -- The evolution of segmentation and sequencing : evidence from homesign and Nicaraguan sign language / Ann Senghas, Asli Özyürek, Susan Goldin-Meadow -- Exploring the nature of a systematicity bias : an experimental study / Andrew D.M. Smith, Barbora Skarabela, Mónica Tamariz -- Open-ended semantics CO-evolving with spatial language / Michael Spranger, Simon Pauw, Martin Loetzsch -- Lost in a linguistic jungle : what's in the language faculty? / Maggie Tallerman -- The role of practice and literacy in the evolution of linguistic structure / Mónica Tamariz, J. Erin Brown, Keelin M. Murray -- Acquisition preferences for negative concord / Jacqueline van Kampen -- The predicability tree. How, and why? / Robert van Rooij -- Strategy competition in the evolution of pronouns : a case-study of Spanish Leısmo, Laısmo and Loısmo / Remi van Trijp -- Priming through constructional dependencies : a case study in fluid construction grammar / Pieter Wellens, Joachim De Beule -- The moving target argument and the speed of evolution / Bodo Winter -- What is special about the language faculty, and how did it get that way? / Stephen R. Anderson -- On the origin of universal categorization patterns : an in-silica experiment / Andrea Baronchelli [and others] -- Coordination of language strategies based on communicative fitness / Joris Bleys -- Samplers, maximisers and the cultural evolutionary dynamics of language / Richard A. Blythe -- Acoustic variability in nonhuman primates : individuality and social context / Hélène Bouchet, Catherine Blois-Heulin, Alban Lemasson -- Contexts of language diversity / Ingar Brinck -- Coordinated multi-modal expression and embodied meaning in the emergence of symbolic communication / J. Erin Brown -- Do ape gestures have specific meanings? Shifting the focus from flexibility to semanticity / Erica A. Cartmill, Richard W. Byrne -- Brains, genes and language evolution / Morten H. Christiansen -- Could evo-devo save Chomsky from the evolutionary paradox? / Hangjun Chu -- Gestural communication in human children : ontogenetic perspective in favour of the gestural hypothesis of language origin / Hélène Cochet, Jacques Vauclair -- The path from point A to point B : how gestures became language in Nicaraguan signing / Marie Coppola, Ann Senghas -- The emergence of structure from sequence memory constraints in cultural transmission / Hannah Cornish, Morten H. Christiansen, Simon Kirby -- Cross-modality : reviving iconicity in the evolution of language / Christine Cuskley, Simon Kirby, Julia Simner -- Squiggle : large-scale social emergence of simple symbols / Rick Dale, Gary Lupyan -- Using software agents to investigate the interactive origins of communication systems / Pieter de Bie [and others] -- The perceptual effect of air sacs / Bart de Boer -- The influence of language on concept formation in artificial agents / Joachim de Greeff, Frédéric Delaunay, Tony Belpaeme -- Recreating duality of patterning in the laboratory : a new experimental paradigm for studying emergence of sublexical structure / Alex del Giudice, Simon Kirby, Carol Padden -- From hand to mouth : an experimental simulation of language origin / Nicolas Fay, Stephanie Lim -- Does input matter? : gesture and homesign in Nicaragua, China, Turkey, and the USA / Molly Flaherty, Susan Goldin-Meadow -- Deception, tells, and the evolution of combinatorial communication / Jacob G. Foster, Matthew Slayton -- The evolution of semantics : a meeting of minds / Peter Gärdenfors -- Does deixis precede vocabulary development in language-trained apes? / Kristen Gillespie-Lynch [and others] -- Why ape-human similarities and learning mechanisms are important : a developmental and cladistic approach to the evolution of language / Patricia M. Greenfield -- Evolving linguistic competence in the absence of performance / Marc D. Hauser -- Simulating Creole and dialect formation / Zena Hira, Mark Bartlett -- Ecological and sexual explanations for larynx lowering / Jean-Marie Hombert -- Observing the birth of phonology / Assaf Israel, Wendy Sandler -- Relaxation of selection can lead to signal variations : an example in birdsong / Hiroko Kagawa [and others] -- The co-involvement of hands and mouth in utterance construction : implications for language origins theories / Adam Kendon -- Relationship between iconic gestures and sound symbolic words : evidence for multimodal protolanguage / Sotaro Kita [and others] -- Cooperative breeding models : implications for the evolution of language / Chris Knight, Camilla Power -- Contributions of aphasiology to language evolution research / Andreas Kyriacou, Sverker Johansson -- How important are words for conceptual coordination? / Cyprian Laskowski, Martin Pickering -- Vocal abilities in a group of nonhuman primates / Alban Lemasson, Klaus Zuberbühler -- Vocal deception from a hunter-gatherer perspective / Jerome Lewis, Chris Knight -- The emergence of self-organization in language : evidence from English word formation / Mark Lindsay, Mark Aronoff -- Beyond communication : language modulates visual processing / Gary Lupyan -- Declaratives in apes : impact of environment on purely infomative communications / Heidi Lyn [and others] -- Languages as evolutionary aggregates / Luke McCrohon -- 3D-morphometric and acoustic analysis of chimpanzee and human vocal tracts, and their use in the reconstruction of Neanderthal vocal tracts and their acoustic potential / Sandra Martelli [and others] -- The cultural evolution of language in a world of continuous meanings / Cristina Matthews, Simon Kirby, Hannah Cornish -- Investigation of gestural vs vocal origins of language in nonhuman primates : distinguishing comprehension and production of signals / Adrien Meguerditchian, Jacques Vauclair -- The interaction of animacy and word order in human languages : a study of strategies in a novel communication task / Irit Meir [and others] -- On the track of the origin of language : a comparative study quantifying hand preference in object manipulation and gestural communication in non human primates / Hélène Meunier, Jacques Vauclair -- A functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound study of brain lateralisation in stone tool making and language / Georg Meyer, Sophie Wuerger, Natalie Uomini -- The evolution of information structure / Vanessa Micelli -- A missing link in the cultural evolution of language : connecting sequential ... |
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Balancing arbitrariness and systematicity in language evolution / Padraic Monaghan, Morten H. Christiansen, Stanka Fitneva -- Speaker-independent perception of human speech by zebra finches / Verena R. Ohms [and others] -- An avian model for language evolution / Irene Pepperberg -- Grooming gestures of chimpanzees in the wild : first insights into meaning and function / Simone Pika, Chris Knight -- The relevance ofthe developmental stress hypothesis to the evolution of language / Anne Pritchard -- Co-evolution of language and social network structure through cultural transmission / Justin Quillinan, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith -- The origins of sociolinguistic marking and its role in language divergence : an experimental study / Gareth Roberts -- Considering language evolution from birdsong development / Kazutoshi Sasahara [and others] -- Semantic bootstrapping of grammar in embodied robots / Yo Sato, Joe Saunders -- Why do wild chimpanzees produce food-associated calls : a case of vocal grooming? / Anne Schel, Klaus Zuberbühler, Katie E. Slocombe -- The importance of exploring non-linguistic functions of human brain language areas for explaining language evolution / P. Thomas Schoenemann -- Language evolution : the view from adult second language learners / Marieke Schouwstra -- The evolution of communication and relevance / Thomas Scoff-Phillips -- Pragmatics not semantics as the basis for clause structure / Thomas Scoff-Phillips [and others] -- Production of the vowels /a, i, u/ based on an articulatory model of feeding / Antoine Serrurier, Anna Barney -- Vocal or gestural? What empirical comparative evidence can and cannot currently tell us about language evolution / Katie E. Slocombe, Bridget Waller, Katja Liebal -- Regularisation of unpredictable variation through itertated learning / Kenny Smith, Elizabeth Wonnacott -- Implausibly cooperative robots meet their selfish gene counterparts / Luc Steels, Chris Knight -- Identifying selective pressures in language evolution : Pólya urns and the price equation / Mónica Tamariz -- What are the analogues of genotype and phenotype in the cultural evolution of language? / Mónica Tamariz -- Acoustic potential for reference-like communication in wild indris / Valeria Torti [and others] -- Simple rules can explain discrimination of putative recursive syntactic structures by songbirds : a case study on zebra finches / Caroline A.A. van Heijningen [and others] -- The critical period and preservation of emerged vowel systems / Tessa Verhoef, Bart de Boer -- Simulations of socio-linguistic change : implications for unidirectionality / Maarten Versteegh, Federico Sangati, Willem Zuidema -- Lessons for evolution from first language development / Marilyn Vihman -- The relevance of body language to evolution of language research / Slawomir Wacewicz, Przemyslaw Żywiczyński -- Vocal and facial productions in nonhuman primates : do they express emotions or language related treatments? / Catherine Wallez, Jacques Vauclair -- Language as extended phenotype? / Dennis Waters -- Reconsidering the code model of communication for simulations of language evolution / Matthijs Westera -- Cultural evolution of bird song and genetic degradation of learning bias / Hajime Yamauchi, Terrence W. Deacon, Kazuo Okanoya -- Optimality and teleomatic causes in the faculty of language / Hajime Yamauchi, Kazuo Okanoya -- From body to mouth (and body) / Jordan Zlatev, Merlin Donald, Göran Sonesson. |
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This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG8), held in Utrecht on 14-17 April 2010. As the leading international conference in the field, the biennial EVOLANG meeting is characterized by an invigorating, multidisciplinary approach to the origins and evolution of human language, and brings together researchers from many subject areas, including anthropology, archaeology, biology, cognitive science, computer science, genetics, linguistics, neuroscience, palaeontology, primatology and psychology. The latest theoreti. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Language and languages -- Origin -- Congresses.
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Language and languages -- Origin. |
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Historical linguistics -- Congresses.
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Historical linguistics. |
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Language and languages -- Etymology -- Congresses.
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Language and languages -- Etymology. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Smith, Andrew D. M.
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Print version: International Conference on the Evolution of Language (8th : 2010 : Utrecht, Netherlands). Evolution of language. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2010 9789814295215 (DLC) 2010294593 (OCoLC)496951691 |
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9789814295222 (electronic book) |
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9814295221 (electronic book) |
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9814295213 |
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