Peter F. MacNeilage
List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter F. MacNeilage plays a role.
2013 Sound patterns and conceptual content of the first words New Perspectives on the Origins of Language, Lefebvre, Claire, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen (eds.), pp. 301–332 | Article
Two simple possibilities, one for the origin of sound patterns of languages and one for the origin of their linkage with concepts, are suggested, both based on behaviors observable today. The sound patterns may have been those of present-day babbling, definable as one or more instances of a… read more
2011 Lashley’s problem of serial order and the evolution of learnable vocal and manual communication Primate Communication and Human Language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans, Vilain, Anne, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry and Jacques Vauclair (eds.), pp. 139–152 | Article
2009 The Frame/Content theory of evolution of speech: A comparison with a gestural-origins alternative Vocalize to Localize, Abry, Christian, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz (eds.), pp. 133–158 | Article
2005 The Frame/Content theory of evolution of speech: A comparison with a gestural-origins alternative Vocalize to Localize II, Abry, Christian, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz (eds.), pp. 173–199 | Article
The Frame/Content theory deals with how and why the first language evolved the present-day speech mode of programming syllable “Frame” structures with segmental (consonant and vowel) “Content” elements. The first words are considered, for biomechanical reasons, to have had the simple syllable… read more
2002 5. The internal structure of the syllable: An ontogenetic perspective on origins The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language, Givón, T. and Bertram F. Malle (eds.), pp. 135–153 | Chapter
2002 6. On the origins of intersyllabic complexity The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language, Givón, T. and Bertram F. Malle (eds.), pp. 155–170 | Chapter
1999 Evolution of the form of spoken words Phonetics of the Origins and Evolution of Speech, Demolin, Didier and Jean-Marie Hombert (eds.), pp. 3–20 | Article
The basic internal structure of a word consists of an alternation between consonants and vowels. Words tend to begin with a consonant and end with a vowel. The fundamental evolutionary status of the consonant-vowel alternation is indicated by its presence in rhythmically organized pre-linguistic… read more
1979 Neural mechanism in speech productions Current Issues in the Phonetic Sciences: Proceedings of the IPS-77 Congress, Miami Beach, Florida, 17–19 December 1977, Hollien, Harry and Patricia Hollien (eds.), pp. 621–638 | Article