Language evolution: the Windows Approach
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| Series: | Approaches to the evolution of language
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| Physical Description: | x, 318 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781107135130 9781316501078 |
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| adam_text | How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it? Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in his fascinating new book. Inferences can be drawn about language evolution from a range of other phenomena serving as windows into this prehistoric process. These include shell beads, fossil skulls and ancestral brains, modern pidgin and creole languages, homesign systems and emergent sign languages, modern motherese, language use of modern hunter-gatherers, first language acquisition, similarities between language and music, and comparative animal behaviour. The first systematic analysis of the Windows Approach, it will be of interest to students and researchers in many disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, palaeontology and primatology, as well as anyone interested in how language evolved.
List of figures page viii
Acknowledgements ix
Part I Preliminaries 1
1 The Windows Approach 3
1.1 Windows of a conceptual kind 3
1.2 Some sample window inferences 4
1.3 Clarifying the window idea 8
1.4 Aims 11
1.5 Organisation 12
2 Conceptual foundations of the Approach 13
2.1 Guiding questions 13
2.2 The Empirical Requirement 13
2.3 The Soundness Requirement 15
2.4 The Warrantedness Condition 17
2.5 The Groundedness Condition 19
2.6 The Pertinence Condition 20
2.7 The anatomy of a window inference 24
2.8 Interlinkage 26
Part II Correlate windows 27
3 Sea shells, ancient beads and Middle Stone Age symbols 29
3.1 Blombos Cave: a veritable treasure trove 29
3.2 From shells to beads 31
3.3 From beads to symbols 34
3.4 From symbols to fully syntactic language 38
3.5 Conclusion 51
4 Fossil skulls and ancestral brains 55
4.1 A basis of bone 55
4.2 The Homo habilis conclusion 57
4.3 The make-up of the inferential chain 60
4.4 From skulls to brains 61
4.5 From sulci and gyri to neuroanatomical areas
4.6 From neuroanatomy to linguistic function
4.7 Conclusion
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Part III Analogue windows 81
5 Incipient pidgins and creoles 83
5.1 ‘The nearest thing to protolanguage’ 83
5.2 Bickerton’s structure variant 84
5.3 Mufwene’s development variant 94
5.4 Roberge’s creation variant 98
5.5 Conclusion 101
6 Homesign systems and emergent sign languages 103
6.1 ‘Natural laboratories’ 103
6.2 Homesign systems and the emergence of new sign languages 105
6.3 ‘Panes’ of the sign language window 108
6.4 Salient properties of the inferences 115
6.5 Conclusion 120
7 Modem motherese 122
7.1 ‘The first glimmerings of language’ 122
7.2 Modem motherese: a cocktail phenomenon 123
7.3 Falk’s account of prelinguistic evolution 127
7.4 (Proto)speech and (proto)language: fuzzy phenomena 129
7.5 The heuristic capacity of the modem motherese model 131
7.6 Conclusion 136
8 Hunter-gatherers’ use of language 139
8.1 Enter the !Kung 139
8.2 MacDonald and Roebroeks’s study 141
8.3 Tallerman’s study 146
8.4 Uniformitarian assumptions as warrants 149
8.5 Some differences between modem hunter-gatherers and early hominins 151
8.6 The uniformitarian warrant of Heine and Kuteva’s
grammaticalisation window 153
8.7 Conclusion 159
9 Language acquisition 161
9.1 ‘Extracting phyletic information from ontogeny’ 161
9.2 Hurford’s theory of the evolution of syntax 164
9.3 The theory of syntax 166
9.4 The theory of the acquisition of syntax 174
9.5 The theory of recapitulation 178
9.6 Bickerton’s protolanguage inference 190
9.7 Conclusion 191
Part IV Abduction windows 3 95
10 Modem music and language 199
10.1 Language:‘a perpetual Orphic song’ 199
10.2 Brown’s musilanguage inference 201
10.3 Mithen’s ‘Hmmmmm’ inference 209
10.4 The Darwin-Fitch musical protolanguage inference 215
10.5 Getting from a musical precursor to full language 220
10.6 Conclusion 225
11 Comparative animal behaviour 230
11.1 Darwin’s window 230
11.2 Investigating linguistic uniqueness 232
11.3 The inferential chains 233
11.4 Diverging assessments of the uniqueness variant of the animal window 245
11.5 Conclusion 251
Part V Epilogue 255
12 A tool fit for demystifying language evolution? 257
12.1 A matter of fitness 257
12.2 Spread potential 257
12.3 Wide scope 258
12.4 Constrained work 260
12.5 Ideas vs the execution of ideas 261
Notes
References
Index
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