The biology of language

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The biology of language

edited by Stanisław Puppel

J. Benjamins, 1995

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Papers presented at a conference held Dec. 1988, Czerniejewo, Poland

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Contents of Works

  • Chimps, children, and creoles : the need for caution / Jean Aitchison
  • Some problems with an evolutionary view of written language / David Barton
  • Essentialism in language / Bernard H. Bichakjian
  • The invention of the syllable : reflections of a humanist on the biology of language / Robert Payson Creed
  • Genetic classification and the historical method / Angela Della Volpe
  • Animal communication and human language : searching for their evolutionary relationship / Gábor Györi
  • From proto-language to grammar / Martin Hildebrand-Nilshon
  • The biological imperatives in communicative interaction / Mary Ritchie Key
  • Ritual/representation as the semiogenetic precursor of hominid symbol use / Jo Liska
  • Language acquisition and the essentialist-evolutionist debate / David J. Messer
  • Group selection in the biocultural evolution of language : fate of the Neanderthals revisited / Richard G. Milo and Duane Quiatt
  • The biology of language / Harvey B. Sarles
  • A possibility of quantum evolution of language / Włodzimierz Sedlak
  • Biological and cultural factors in the evolution of language / David Smillie

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