The leading scholars in the rapidly growing field of language evolution give readable accounts of their theories on the origins of language and reflect on the most important current issues and debates. As well as providing a guide to their own published research in this area they highlight what they see as the most relevant research of others. The authors come from a wide range of disciplines involved in language evolution including linguistics, cognitive science, computational science, primatology, and archaeology.
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"Language Evolution is a brave attempt at a state-of-the-art survey of language origin research at the beginning of the millennium." -- Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Science
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Morten H. Christiansen is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. He is co-editor of Connectionist Psycholinguistics published by Ablex in 2001. Simon Kirby is a British Academy Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh: his book, Function, Selection, and Innateness was published by OUP in 1999.
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It is an exciting time when another compilation on the subject of language evolution edited by the likes of Simon Kirby and Morten Christiansen comes along. This volume, like its predecessors, is packed with musings by the full spectrum of leading contemporary theorists and investigators in the "field" of language evolution. Yes, it is technical (reflecting the field's growing maturity and sophistication) and readers may benefit from at least a passing acquaitance with some of the directions apparent in the field, but it is thorough and satisfyingly representative of the views of major current contributors to the debate. Deacon, Tomasello, Hurford, and the editors are all contributors, along with along with Bickerton and Davidson, amongst a host of others.
The role of gestures as precusors to the advent of speech is explored, the role of neuronal sub-structures in language processing, and the possible interaction of universal grammar with respect to semiotics are amongst the topics addressed.
If you want a reasonably concise, yet quite thorough snapshot of the current stage of this rapidly expanding and maturing field, then this volume is absolutely perfect: highly recommended for interested students, academics, and members of the lay public.
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