The evolution of language /
Fitch, W. Tecumseh.
The evolution of language / W. Tecumseh Fitch. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2010. - xii, 610 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
9780521859936 052185993X 9780521677363 (pbk.) 052167736X (pbk.)
2010502306
Language and languages--Origin.
Historical linguistics.
P116 / .F58 2010
417.7
The evolution of language / W. Tecumseh Fitch. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2010. - xii, 610 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
9780521859936 052185993X 9780521677363 (pbk.) 052167736X (pbk.)
2010502306
Language and languages--Origin.
Historical linguistics.
P116 / .F58 2010
417.7