CONTENTS
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Michael Studdert-Kennedy, Chris Knight, and James R Hurford
``Introduction: New Approaches to Language Evolution''
Section I:
Grounding language function in social cognition
- Chris Knight ``Introduction: Grounding language function in social
cognition''
- Jean Aitchison ``On Discontinuing the Continuity-Discontinuity Debate''
- Ib Ulbaek ``The Origin of Language and Cognition''
- Merlin Donald ``Mimesis and the Executive Suite: Missing Links in Language
Evolution''
- Chris Knight ``Ritual/Speech Co-Evolution: a `Selfish Gene' Solution
to the Problem of Deception''
- Robin Dunbar ``Theory of Mind and the Evolution of Language''
- Camilla Power ``Old Wives' Tales: the Gossip Hypothesis and the Reliability
of Cheap Signals''
- Jean-Louis Dessalles ``Altruism, Status, and the Origin of Relevance''
- Robert Worden ``The Evolution of Language from Social Intelligence''
Section II:
The Emergence of Phonology
- Michael Studdert-Kennedy ``Introduction: The Emergence of Phonology''
- Maria Ujhelyi ``Long Call Structure in Apes as a Possible Precursor
to Language''
- John Locke ``Social Sound-Making as a Precursor to Spoken Language''
- Peter MacNeilage ``Evolution of the Mechanisms of Language Output''
- Michael Studdert-Kennedy ``The Origins of Generativity''
- Bjorn Lindblom ``Systemic Constraints and Adaptive Change in the Formation
of Sound Structure''
- Klaus J. Kohler ``The Development of Sound Systems in Human Language''
- Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy ``Synonymy Avoidance, Phonology and the Origin
of Syntax''
Section III:
The Emergence of Syntax
- James R Hurford ``Introduction: The Emergence of Syntax''
- Frederick J. Newmeyer ``On the Supposed `Counterfunctionality' of Universal
Grammar: some Evolutionary Considerations''
- Robert C. Berwick, Partha Niyogi and Charles Yang ``Language Evolution
and the Minimalist Program: the Origins of Syntax''
- Derek Bickerton ``Catastrophic Evolution: the Case for a Single Step
from Protolanguage to Full Human Language''
- Simon Kirby ``Fitness and the Selective Adaptation of Language''
- John Batali ``Computational Simulations of the Emergence of
Grammar''
- Luc Steels ``Synthesizing the Origins of Language and Meaning using
Co-evolution, Self-organization and Level Formation''