Origins of language: constraints on hypotheses
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| adam_text | Table
of
contents
List of Figures
viii
List of Tables
ix
Preface
χ
1.
INTRODUCTION
1
2.
WHAT IS LANGUAGE?
5
3.
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
13
3.1
Natural selection as an abstract process
14
3.2
Variation, randomness, and mutation
15
3.3
Limitations and misunderstandings of evolution
16
3.4
Cultural evolution
20
3.4.1
Evolutionary epistemology
22
3.4.2
The three worlds of Karl Popper
24
3.4.3
Memetics
25
3.4.4
The interaction of cultural and biological evolution
29
3.5
Evolutionary theory as applied to language
31
3.5.1
Evolution of language per ie
32
3.5.2
Co-evolution of linguistic and biological organisms
35
3.6
The time scale of evolution
39
3.7
Summary
40
4.
HUMAN ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION
41
4.1
Mammals
42
4.2
Primates
44
4.2.1
Who is our closest living relative?
48
4.3
Hominids
51
4.3.1
Bipedal apes
52
4.3.2
Growing brains
60
4.3.3
Ourselves and other humans
66
4.4
Summary
75
5.
ANATOMICAL AND NEUROLOGICAL PREREQUISITES
77
5.1
Sound production
77
5.1.1
Vocal tract differences
78
vi
Origins of language
5.1.2
The neural wiring of the vocal apparatus
81
5.1.3
Control of rapid sequencing
83
5.1.4
When did we start to speak?
85
5.2
Sound perception
86
5.3
Brain anatomy, modularity, and lateralization
88
5.3.1
Why did large brains evolve?
94
5.3.2
Lateralization
98
5.3.3
Modularity
100
5.3.4
Brain and language in other species, fossil and extant
112
5.4
Summary
116
6.
ANIMAL COMMUNICATION IN THE WILD
119
6.1
Do animal calls mean anything?
120
6.2
Mental states of communicating animals?
122
6.3
The evolution of animal communication
125
6.4
Animal syntax?
127
6.5
Summary
127
7.
CAN NON-HUMANS BE TAUGHT LANGUAGE?
129
7.1
Apes
130
7.2
Dolphins
136
7.3
Parrots
137
7.4
Patterns of non-human language acquisition
138
7.5
Summary
141
8.
LANGUAGE, MIND, AND SELF
143
8.1
What is Mind
—
the hard problem
145
8.2
What is mind
—
the easy problem
—
and do animals have it?
147
8.2.1
Theory of mind
148
8.2.2
Self-awareness
152
8.3
Summary
155
9.
HYPOTHESES OF LANGUAGE ORIGINS
157
9.1
Historical background
158
9.2
Dimensions of language evolution hypotheses
162
9.3
Adaptation vs. spandrel
163
Table
of
contents vil
9.4
Early vs. late
167
9.4.1
Art and technology as proxies for language?
168
9.5
Gradual vs. sudden
170
9.6
Speech first vs. gestures first
173
9.6.1
Mimesis
175
9.6.2
Mirror neurons
176
9.6.3
Why switch to speech?
177
9.7
Innate vs. learned
178
9.8
Summary
190
10.
WHY DID LANGUAGE EVOLVE?
193
10.1
Hunting
195
10.2
Tool making
198
10.3
Sexual selection
202
10.4
Child care and teaching
206
10.5
Social relations in groups and tribes
208
10.6
Miscellaneous ideas
214
10.7
Why us and not the other apes?
216
10.8
Summary
217
11.
PROTO-LANGUAGE
219
11.1
Proto-speech
219
11.2
Proto-gestures
222
11.3
Proto-semantics
223
11.4
Proto-syntax
230
11.5
How can all the protos be combined?
240
11.6
Summary
242
12.
CONCLUSIONS
243
References
248
Index
331
Sverker Johansson
has written an unusual book on language origins, witft
its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is
Λ
book for the student or researcher who prefers solid data and well-supported
conclusions, over speculative scenarios. Much that has been written on the
origins of language is characterized by hypothesizing largely unconstrained
by evidence. But empirical data do exist, and the purpose of this book is to
integrate and review the available evidence from all relevant disciplines, not
only linguistics but also, e.g., neurology, primatology, paleoanthropology, and
evolutionary biology. The evidence is then usecjfo constrain the multitude of
scenarios for language origins, demonstrating that many popular hypotheses
are untenable. Among the issues covered:
(1)
Human evolutionary history,
(2)
Anatomical prerequisites for language,
(3)
Animal communication ami ape
language ,
(4)
Mind and language,
(5)
The roleof gesture,
(6)
Innateness,
(7)
Selective advantage of language,
(8)
Proto-Janguage.
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