W. Tecumseh Fitch is a Reader in Psychology at the University of St Andrews. He studies the evolution of cognition and communication in animals and man, focusing on the evolution of speech, music and language. He is interested in all aspects of vocal communication in terrestrial vertebrates, particularly vertebrate vocal production in relation to the evolution of speech and music in our own species.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. The Lay of the Land: 1. Language from a biological perspective 2. Evolution 3. Language 4. Animal cognition and communication Part II. Meet the Ancestors: 5. Meet the ancestors 6. The last common ancestor 7. The hominid fossil record Part III. The Evolution of Speech: 8. The evolution of the human vocal tract 9. The evolution of vocal control 10. Modelling the evolution of speech Part IV. Phylogenetic Models of Language Evolution: 11. Language evolution before Darwin 12. Lexical protolanguage 13. Gestural protolanguage 14. Musical protolanguage 15. Conclusions and prospects.
Introduction Part I. The Lay of the Land: 1. Language from a biological perspective 2. Evolution 3. Language 4. Animal cognition and communication Part II. Meet the Ancestors: 5. Meet the ancestors 6. The last common ancestor 7. The hominid fossil record Part III. The Evolution of Speech: 8. The evolution of the human vocal tract 9. The evolution of vocal control 10. Modelling the evolution of speech Part IV. Phylogenetic Models of Language Evolution: 11. Language evolution before Darwin 12. Lexical protolanguage 13. Gestural protolanguage 14. Musical protolanguage 15. Conclusions and prospects.
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