Origins and evolution of language and speech

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History of language-origins theory. Introduction / Gordon W. Hewes

An outline of language-origins theory since the Renaissance / Hans Arsleff

Discussion / Gordon W. Hewes, moderator

Formulating the target. Introduction / Donald Davidson

Frame semantics and the nature of language / Charles J. Fillmore

A hypothesis about the uniqueness of natural language / Jerrold J. Katz

Discussion / Donald Davidson, moderator

On the nature of language / Noam Chomsky

Discussion paper : induction, evolution, and accountability / Stevan R. Harnad

Language change / William S.-Y. Wang

The logical diversity of natural languages / Edward L. Keenan

Discussion / Patrick Suppes, moderator

Historical linguistics and the origin of language / Paul Kiparsky

Protolinguistics : the study of protolanguages as an aid to glossogonic research / Roger W. Wescott

Discussion of the two preceding papers / Paul Kay

Discussion paper : mathematical linguistics, logic, and the development of language and reasoning in the child / George Epstein and Stuart C. Shapiro

Discussion / George Epstein

Perceptual and cognitive substrates. Introduction / Sam Glucksberg

Communication and cognitive organization in humans and other animals / Emil W. Menzel and Marcia K. Johnson

Cross-modal perception in apes / Richard K. Davenport

Language and skilled activity / Peter C. Reynolds

Discussion / Sam Glucksberg, moderator

Discussion paper : child language and the origins of language / Lois Bloom

The ontogeny of primate intelligence and its implications for communicative potential : a preliminary report / Suzanne Chevalier-Skolnikoff

The development of language as purposive behavior / Ernst von Glasersfeld

Syntax and semantics of children's language / Patrick Suppes

Discussion / Lois Bloom, moderator

Brain architecture and mechanisms that underlie language : an information-processing analysis / Robert J. Baron

Problem-solving approach to first-language acquisition / L. Siklóssy

Discussion / Roland Pucceti

Toolmaking, hunting, and the origin of language / Ashley Montagu

Stages of cultural elaboration in the Pleistocene : possible archeological indicators of the development of language capabilities / Glynn L. Isaac

Some implications of the Paleolithic symbolic evidence for the origin of language / Alexander Marshack

The evolution of language in the late Pleistocene / Julian Jaynes

Discussion / Horst D. Steklis, moderator

Paleoneurological evidence for language origins / Ralph L. Holloway

Morphological cerebral asymmetries of modern man, fossil man, and nonhuman primate / Marjorie LeMay

Discussion paper : language, neural organization, and the fossil record / Simeon Locke

Discussion paper : the paleoneurology of language / Harry J. Jerison

Discussion / Leonard Radinsky, moderator

An ethological theory of the origin of vocal learning / Peter Marler

Relations between the ontogeny and phylogeny of language : a neorecapitulist view / John T. Lamendella

Some complexities in the communication behavior of gulls / Colin Beer

Discussion paper : the evolution of distance communication in bees / Howard M. Reid

Discussion / Jane Lancaster, moderator

From hand to mouth : some critical stages in the evolution of language / Horst D. Steklis and Stevan R. Harnad

Languages of organism : requisite fabric for an evolution of the speech function : some theoretical considerations / Earl W. Count

Discussion paper : the evolution of human communication : what can primates tell us? / Nancy Tanner and Adrienne Zihlman

Discussion / Thomas A. Sebeok, moderator

The current status of the gestural theory of language origin / Gordon W. Hewes

Sign language autonomy / William C. Stokoe

Two faces of sign : iconic and abstract / Ursula Bellugi and Edward S. Klima

Discussion paper : human language and primate communication / Michael J. Raleigh and Frank R. Ervin

Discussion / Jean Kitahara-Frisch, moderator

Mechanisms of intelligence : preconditions for language / David Premack

The mastery of language-type skills by the chimpanzee (Pan) / Duane M. Rumbaugh and Timothy V. Gill

What might be learned from studying language in the chimpanzee? The importance of symbolizing oneself / H.S. Terrace and T.G. Bever

Discussion paper : comparison of sign language projects and implications for language origins / Roger S. Fouts

Discussion paper : the communicative competence of child and chimpanzee / Lyn W. Miles

Discussion paper : chimpanzees and language evolution / William A. Malmi

Discussion / David Premack, moderator

Phylogeny of the human vocal tract / Jan Wind

Biomechanics of speech sounds / E. Lloyd Du Brul

Discussion paper : vocal tract and brain : a search for evolutionary bottlenecks / Fernando Nottebohm

Discussion paper : evolution of laryngeal folding / B.R. Fink [and others]

Discussion / B.R. Fink, moderator

Interactive models for evolution : neural mechanisms, anatomy, and behavior / Philip Lieberman

Use of formants in the grunts of baboons and other nonhuman primates / R.J. Andrew

Speech perception in the human infant and rhesus monkey / Philip A. Morse

Auditory perception and speech evolution / Richard M. Warren

Discussion paper / A.M. Liberman

Discussion / Jan Wind, moderator

Neural parallels and continuities. Introduction / Karl H. Pribram

The search for cerebral dominance in monkeys / J.M. Warren and A.J. Nonneman

Comparative neurology of vocalization and speech : proof of a dichotomy / Ronald E. Myers

Discussion of the paper by R.E. Myers / E.W. Menzel

Limbic influences on human speech / Bryan W. Robinson

Discussion / Karl H. Pribram, moderator

Lateralized temporal-limbic dysfunction and psychopathology / P. Flor-Henry

Discussion of the paper by P. Flor-Henry / Maureen Dennis

Language in a sociobiological frame / Karl H. Pribram

Evolution of language lateralization and cognitive function / Jerre Levy

Cerebral asymmetry : changes in factors affecting its development / Dennis L. Molfese [and others]

Wernicke's region

where is it? / J.E. Bogen and G.M. Bogen

Anatomic variations in the cortex : individual differences and the problem of the localization of language functions / Harry A. Whitaker and Ola A. Selnes

Discussion / Stevan R. Harnad, moderator

The role of language in the memory disorders of brain-damaged patients / Laird S. Cermak and Nelson Butters

Dissociations of language in aphasia : implications for normal function / Oscar S.M. Marin, Eleanor M. Saffran and Myrna F. Schwartz

Strategies of mastering a visual communication system in aphasia / Lynn Davis and Howard Gardner

Discussion / Earl Miner, moderator

Neurobiology of language : an overview / Oscar S.M. Marin

Concluding remarks / Robin Fox