The Evolution of human languages : proceedings of the Workshop on the Evolution of Human Languages, held August, 1989 in Santa Fe, New Mexico
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The Evolution of human languages : proceedings of the Workshop on the Evolution of Human Languages, held August, 1989 in Santa Fe, New Mexico
（Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity, . Proceedings ; v. 11）
Addison-Wesley, 1992
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Complex adaptive systems are all around us, and include such diverse examples as the immune system, the world economy, and the study of language. The evolution of human languages has been the most recent research activity of the Santa Fe Institute. Among the themes of this research are the search for general principles of complex adaptive systems, their broad implications, and how the study of language contributes to, and learns from, the general questions of complexity and evolution. In addition, such diverse topics as dating and origin of human language; the relationship between complexity, evolution, and the similarities and regularities in grammatical processes across language; the evolution of language universals; the phylogeny of language; the role of complexity in language change; and language acquisition by children are all explored.
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Table of Contents
On Complex Adaptive Systems * Complexity and Complex Adaptive Systems Murray Gell-Mann Brain and Speech Physiology in Language Evolution * On the Evolution of Human Language Philip Lieberman * Brain-Language Coevolution Terrance W. Deacon Innateness and Function in Language Universals * Innateness and Function in Language Universals John A. Hawkins * A Brief Presentation of the Generative Enterprise Joseph Aoun The Evolution of Linguistic Diversity and Language Families * Preliminaries to t Systematic Comparison between Biological and Linguistic Evolution Joseph H. Greenberg * An Overview of Genetic Classification Merritt Ruhlen The Evolution of Complexity in Language Change * Before Complexity Bernard Comrie * The Evolution of Linguistic Complexity in Pidgin and Creole Languages Suzanne Romaine Ontongeny and Phylogeny * Complexity and Language Acquisition: Influences on the Development of Morphological Systems in Children Elaine S. Andersen * An Approach to the Phylogeny of the Language Faculty James R. Hurford * Ontogeny and Phylogeny: What Child Language and Archaeology Have to Say to Each Other E.J.W. Barber and A.M.W. Peters
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