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BK

1st pub.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010

xii, 610 s. : il. ; 25 cm

ISBN 978-0-521-67736-3 (brož.)

3. dotisk 2011

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Contents // List of figures [page ix] // Acknowledgments [ xi ] // Introduction [1] // SECTION 1 THE LAY OF THE LAND // 1 Language from a biological perspective [13] // 2 Evolution: consensus and controversy [35] // 3 Language [73] // 4 Animal cognition and communication [143] // SECTION 2 MEET THE ANCESTORS // 5 Meet the ancestors [205] // 6 The LCA: our last common ancestor with chimpanzees [234] // 7 Hominid paleontology and archaeology [250] // SECTION 3 THE EVOLUTION OF SPEECH // 8 The evolution of the human vocal tract [297] // 9 The evolution of vocal control: the neural basis for spoken language [338] // 10 Models of the evolution of speech and phonology [364] // SECTION 4 EVALUATING PHYLOGENETIC MODELS OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION // 11 Historical overview: Western theories of language origin before Darwin [389] // Contents // viii // 12 Lexical protolanguage [401] // 13 Signs before speech: gestural protolanguage theories [433] // 14 Musical protolanguage [466] // 15 Conclusions and prospects [508] // Glossary [513] // Appendix: species names [519] // References [521] // Author index [605] // Subject index [607] // Species index [611]