Special issue of Evolutionary Psychology on language evolution
January 17, 2011 in Uncategorized
The Journal of Evolutionary
Psychology has published its special issue on language evolution, and access is currently free.
Here’s the table of contents:
Evolutionary psychology and the origins of language (editorial)
Thomas C. Scott-Phillips
Review of geographic variation in terrestrial mammalian acoustic signals: Human speech variation in a comparative perspective
Adriano R. Lameira, Roberto A. Delgado and Serge A. Wich
Environment, methodology, and the object choice task in apes: Evidence for declarative comprehension and implications for the evolution of language
H. Lyn
Modelling vocal anatomy’s significant effect on speech
Bart de Boer
What exactly evolved?
A review of The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives , edited by Richard K. Larson, Viviane Déprez, Hiroko
Yamakido
Robert Truswell
A minimal approach is insufficient
A review of Language Evolution and Syntactic Theory by Anna R. Kinsella
Martin Edwardes
How language came to be?
A review of The Evolution of Language , by Tecumseh Fitch
Robin Dunbar
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