The evolution of human language [Texte imprimé] : biolinguistic perspectives / [edited by] Richard K. Larson, Viviane Déprez, Hiroko Yamakido

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introduction -- The faculty of language : what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? / Marc D. hauser, Noam Chomsky and W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Language architecture. Some simple evo devo theses : how true might they be for language? / Noam Chomsky ; Your theory of language evolution depends on your theory of language / Ray Jackendoff ; Three meaning of "recursion" : key distinctions for biolinguistics / W. Tecumseh Fitch ; On obfuscation, obscurantism, and opacity : evolving conceptions of the faculty of language / Marc D. Hauser -- Language and interface systems. Prospection as a cognitive precursor to symbolic communication / Peter Gärdenfors and Mathias Osvath ; Did language evolve before speech? / Michael C. Corballis ; A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language / Dan Sperber and Gloria Origgi -- Biological and neurological foundations. Plasticity and canalization in the evolution of linguistic communication : an evolutionary developmental approach / Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka ; What is language, that it may have evolved, and what is evolution, that it may apply to language / Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini ; The creative capacity of language, in what manner is it unique, and who had it? / Philip Lieberman ; Genetics and the evolution of language : what genetic studies reveal about the evolution of language / Karin Stromswold -- Anthropological context. A putative role for language in the origin of human consciousness / Ian Tattersall ; On two incompatible theories of language evolution / Derek Bickerton ; On the evolution of language : implications of a new and general theory of human origins, properties, and history / Paul M. Bingham