New Perspectives on the Origins of Language

• Preface | pp. vii–viii
• Introduction | pp. ix–xvi
• Part 1. General perspectives and issues on language origins
• Historical, Darwinian, and current perspectives on the origin(s) of language
  Henri Cohen | pp. 3–30
• The origin of language as seen by eighteenth-century philosophy
  Sylvian Auroux | pp. 31–52
• Cognitive and social aspects of language origins
  Alan Barnard | pp. 53–72
• Part 2. At the roots of language
• Reconstructed fossil vocal tracts and the production of speech: Phylogenetic and ontogenetic considerations
  Jean-Louis Boë, Jean Granat, Jean-Louis Heim, Pierre Badin, Guillaume Barbier, Guillaume Captier, Antoine Serrurier, Pascal Perrier, Nicolas Kielwasser and Jean-Luc Schwartz | pp. 75–128
• Paleoanthropology and language
  Ian Tattersall | pp. 129–146
• Material culture and language
  Benoît Dubreuil and Christopher S. Henshilwood | pp. 147–170
• Gestural theory of the origins of language
  Michael C. Corballis | pp. 171–184
• Part 3. Communication and language origins
• Primate communication
  Klaus Zuberbühler | pp. 187–210
• FoxP2 and vocalization
  Stephanie White | pp. 211–236
• Brain lateralization and the emergence of language
  Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer and Cyril Courtin | pp. 237–256
• Sensorimotor constraints and the organization of sound patterns
  Lucie Ménard | pp. 257–278
• Symbol grounding and the origin of language: From show to tell
  Alexandre Blondin Massé, Stevan Harnad, Olivier Picard and Bernard St-Louis | pp. 279–298
• Part 4. Linguistic views on language origins
• Sound patterns and conceptual content of the first words
  Peter F. MacNeilage | pp. 301–332
• Brave new words
  Pierre J. Bancel and Alain Matthey de l'Etang | pp. 333–378
• On the origin of Grammar
  Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck and Tania Kuteva | pp. 379–406
• Arbitrary signs and the emergence of language
  Denis Bouchard | pp. 407–440
• On the relevance of pidgins and creoles in the debate on the origins of language
  Claire Lefebvre | pp. 441–484
• Part 5. Computational modeling of language origins
• Modeling cultural evolution: Language acquisition as multiple-cue integration
  Morten H. Christiansen | pp. 487–504
• How language emerges in situated embodied interactions
  Luc Steels | pp. 505–532
• Emergence of communication and language in evolving robots
  Stefano Nolfi | pp. 533–554
• Evolving a bridge from praxis to language
  Michael A. Arbib | pp. 555–578
• Index | pp. 579–582

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