Larson, Richard K. <br/><br/>
The evolution of human language  biolinguistic perspectives /  [[Book] :] 
Richard K. Larson, Viviane Déprez, Hiroko Yamakido. 
 - Cambridge ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  c2010. 
 - x, 269 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Approaches to the evolution of language. .
 - Approaches to the evolution of language. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-262) and index. 
<br/><br/> The faculty of language : --  what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? /  Language architecture. --  Some simple evo devo theses : --  how true might they be for language? /  Your theory of language evolution depends on your theory of language /  Three meaning of "recursion" : --  key distinctions for biolinguistics /  On obfuscation, obscurantism, and opacity : --  evolving conceptions of the faculty of language /  Language and interface systems. --  Prospection as a cognitive precursor to symbolic communication /  Did language evolve before speech? /  A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language /  Biological and neurological foundations. --  Plasticity and canalization in the evolution of linguistic communication : --  an evolutionary developmental approach /  What is language, that it may have evolved, and what is evolution, that it may apply to language /  The creative capacity of language, in what manner is it unique, and who had it? /  Genetics and the evolution of language : --  what genetic studies reveal about the evolution of language /  Anthropological context. --  A putative role for language in the origin of human consciousness /  On two incompatible theories of language evolution /  On the evolution of language : --  implications of a new and general theory of human origins, properties, and history /  Marc D. hauser, Noam Chomsky and W. Tecumseh Fitch --  Noam Chomsky ; --  Ray Jackendoff ; --  W. Tecumseh Fitch ; --  Marc D. Hauser --  Peter G?rdenfors and Mathias Osvath ; --  Michael C. Corballis ; --  Dan Sperber and Gloria Origgi --  Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka ; --  Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini ; --  Philip Lieberman ; --  Karin Stromswold --  Ian Tattersall ; --  Derek Bickerton ; --  Paul M. Bingham.  introduction -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521736250 (pbk.) 9780521736251 (pbk.) 0521516455 9780521516457 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Language and languages--Origin.<br/>Linguistic change.<br/>Biolinguistics.<br/>Neurolinguistics.<br/>Anthropological linguistics.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>417.7 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>417.7  / L E