The Biology of Language - Puppel, Stanislaw
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Main description:
This volume brings together 15 papers on the evolution and origin of language. The authors approach the subject from various angles, exploring biological, cultural, psychological and linguistic factors. A wide variety of topics is discussed, such as animal communication, language acquisition, the essentialist-evolutionist debate, and genetic classification.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chimps, children and creoles
- Some problems with an evolutionary view of written language
- Essentialism in language
- The invention of the…mehr

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Main description:
This volume brings together 15 papers on the evolution and origin of language. The authors approach the subject from various angles, exploring biological, cultural, psychological and linguistic factors. A wide variety of topics is discussed, such as animal communication, language acquisition, the essentialist-evolutionist debate, and genetic classification.

Table of contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chimps, children and creoles
- Some problems with an evolutionary view of written language
- Essentialism in language
- The invention of the syllable
- Genetic classification and the historical method
- Animal communication and human language
- From proto-language to grammar
- The biological imperatives in communicative interaction
- Ritual/representation as the semiogenetic precursor of hominid symbol use
- Language acquisition and the essentialist-evolutionist debate
- Group selection in the biocultural evolution of language
- The biology of language
- A possibility of quantum evolution of language
- Biological and cultural factors in the evolution of language
- Index of names
- Index of terms