TY - BOOK AU - Fitch,W.Tecumseh TI - The evolution of language SN - 9780521859936 AV - P116 .F58 2010 U1 - 417.7 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Language and languages KW - Origin KW - Historical linguistics N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1013/2010502306-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1013/2010502306-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1013/2010502306-t.html ER -