Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-364) and index
The origin of speech
Published:
c2008
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Background : the intellectual context -- Getting to the explanation of speech -- The nature of modern hominid speech -- Speech in deep time : how speech got started -- Ontogeny and phylogeny 1 : the frame stage -- Ontogeny and phylogeny 2 : the...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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Background : the intellectual context -- Getting to the explanation of speech -- The nature of modern hominid speech -- Speech in deep time : how speech got started -- Ontogeny and phylogeny 1 : the frame stage -- Ontogeny and phylogeny 2 : the frame/content stage -- The origin of words : how frame-stage patterns acquired meanings -- Evolution of brain organization for speech : background -- A dual brain system for the frame/content mode -- Evolution of cerebral hemispheric specialization for speech -- Generative phonology and the origin of speech -- Generative phonology and the acquisition of speech -- An amodal phonology? : implications of the existence of sign language -- Ultimate causes of speech : genes and memes -- Conclusions. This account of the origin and evolution of speech integrates up-to-date research in speech, acquisition, and neurobiology, and includes the key observation that infants learning language reveal similar constraints to those acting on our distant ancestors
