TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fitch,W.Tecumseh
TI  - The evolution of language
SN  - 052167736X (pbk.)
AV  - P116 .F58 2010
U1  - 417.7 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Historical linguistics
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Origin
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
ER  -