Communicating meaning : the evolution and development of language
Congress
viii, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780805821185, 080582118X
34078362
Language development at the crossroad of biological and cultural interactions / Boris M. Velichkovsky
The origins of words : a psychophysical hypothesis / Stevan Harnad
What knowledge must be in the head in order to acquire language? / William Bechtel
Was speech an evolutionary afterthought? / Alexandra Maryanski
Prefrontal cortex and symbol learning : why a brain capable of language evolved only once / Terrence W. Deacon
Origins of communication in infancy / Marc H. Bornstein
The temporal organization of language : developmental and neuropsychological aspects / Angela D. Friederici
Genetic histories and patterns of linguistic change / Alberto Piazza
Orality, literacy, and cognitive modeling / Eckart Scheerer
Biobehavioral roots of language : words, apes, and a child / Duane M. Rumbaugh and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
The cultural roots of language / Michael Tomasello
With few exceptions, this work documents a conference at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld, held in Jan. 1992