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by Christine Kenneally

Birth of the Mind, The (Marcus)

  Blackburn, Robin

  Blake, Joanna

  Blombos Cave

  Bloom, Paul:

  at Gould debate

  on language evolution

  Bogin, Barry

  Bonnot, Étienne

  bonobos

  evolution of

  future planning by

  gestures by

  humans’ relationship to

  music enjoyed by

  tools used by

  Borneo

  Boroditsky, Lera

  Botswana

  Brahma

  brain:

  ape

  bird

  chimpanzee

  gorilla

  monkey

  primate

  whale

  see also specific brain components

  brain, human

  big genetic bang and

  computer analogy of

  damage to

  growth rates of

  language and

  negative selection and

  plasticity of

  size of

  speech and syntax overlap in

  Brandeis University

  breathing

  Brehm, Alfred

  Broca’s area

  Brodmann’s area

  Brown University

  Budongo Forest

  Bully for Brontosaurus (Gould)

  Bush, George H.W.

  Bush, George W.

  Bybee, Joan

  California, University of

  Call, Josep

  Cambridge, University of

  Cambridge survey of linguistics

  Cantalupo, Claudio

  Carnegie Mellon University

  Carr, Philip

  Catania, A. Charles

  categorical perception

  cats

  Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi

  Central African Republic

  cerebellum

  cerebral cortex

  Chaucer, Geoffrey

  Cheney, Dorothy

  Chicago, University of

  chickens

  child language development

  children

  chimeras

  chimpanzees

  ancestry of

  basal ganglia possessed by

  brains of

  calls of

  concept of zero and

  drumming by

  EQ of

  evolution of

  food cries of

  generalizing ability of

  genome of

  gestures by

  Goodall’s imitation of

  humans’ relationship with

  imitation and

  larynx of

  mouth movements by

  pant hoots of

  pointing by

  reflections understood by

  rhythm in dominance displays of

  screams of

  sound capabilities of

  syntax of

  chimpanzees (cont.) theory of mind of

  tools used by

  vocal learning lacking in

  “Chimpanzee Stone Age,”

  China

  chinchillas

  Chinese

  Chomsky, Noam

  apocryphal stories about

  changing theories of

  conflicts with

  on evolution

  and infinitude of language

  influence of

  on Kanzi

  language defined by

  on language evolution

  Lieberman in class of

  misunderstandings of

  Pinker and Bloom’s paper and

  Pinker on

  on poverty of stimulus

  on starling syntax

  style of

  on Symbolic Species

  universal grammar of

  as world’s top intellectual

  Christiansen, Morten

  Chukchi

  Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston

  Civil War, U.S.

  Clever Hans (horse)

  click languages

  clones

  Coburg-Gotha, Duke of

  Code, Chris

  co-evolution

  cognition

  animal

  and language

  nonlinguistic, Pinker and Jackendoff on

  Cognition

  cognitive genetics

  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

  colobus

  color

  Columbia University

  combinatorial grammar

  combinatorial structure

  communication

  animal vs. human

  baboon

  see also gestures; language; pointing

  comparative method

  competence

  conceptual intentional system

  Congo, Republic of

  Connecticut, University of

  connectionism

  contingency testers

  Corballis, Michael

  core syntax

  Cornell University

  cortex

  Cosmides, Leda

  Côte d’Ivoire

  creole

  crows

  Culicover, Peter

  culture

  big genetic bang in

  as force of evolution

  Darwin, Charles

  on language

  Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (Dennett)

  DAVO (speech synthesizer)

  Dawkins, Richard

  Deacon, Terrence

  deaf children

  see also signs, sign language

  Dediu, Dan

  deep structure

  dendrites

  Déné

  Deneubourg, Jean-Louis

  Dennett, Daniel

  Descent of Man, The (Darwin)

  de Waal, Frans

  Diamond, Jared

  Dick, Fred

  Dikika

  discrete infinity

  DNA

  Dobzhansky, Theodosius

  dogs

  barking of

  gestures by

  larynx of

  numbers understood by

  vocal learning lacking in

  dolphin research project

  dolphins

  babbling by

  EQ of

  gesture imitation by

  language entropy of

  reflections and

  signature whistles of

  tools used by

  vocal imitation by

  Doyle, Laurance

  duality of patterning

  Duke University

  Dunbar, Robin

  dyslexia

  Dyson, Freeman

  Dzanga-Sangha National Park

  eagle

  East London, University of

  Eco, Umberto

  Edinburgh, University of

  Edinburgh Zoo

  Edkins, Joseph

  Egypt

  Elephant Listening Project

  elephants

  Elodie (elephant)

  Emory University

  emotion

  Emx gene

  Enard, Wolfgang

  encephalization quotient (EQ)

  English

  entropy

  Essay on the Origin of Languages (Rousseau)

  Ethiopia

  Everest, Mount

  Everett, Daniel

  Everett, Keren

  evolution, biological

  alarm calls and

  Bickerton on

  computer model of

  concept of zero and

  culture as force of

  of dolphins

  extinction and

  of eye

  future of

  Gould on

  of humans

  music and

  see also co-evolution; language evolution; natural selection; sexual selection

  evolutionary linguistics

  evolutionary psychology

  E
volution of Language conference:

  of 1996

  of 2004

  of 2006

  Evolution of the Chinese Language, The (Edkins)

  Exeter, University of

  eye, evolution of

  faces

  “Faculty of Language, The” (Hauser Chomsky, and Fitch)

  farming

  Ferrer i Cancho, Ramon

  field linguists

  finite state grammar

  Fire in the Mind (Johnson)

  fish

  Fisher, Simon

  Fitch, Tecumseh

  on alarm calls

  on animal perception-production asymmetry

  on animal rhythm

  on animal speech

  on language as uniquely human

  on language evolution

  on music

  tamarin grammar studied by

  on visual-auditory links

  Fodor, Jerry

  formant frequency

  fossil record

  Fouts, Roger

  fowl, sounds produced by

  FOXP2 gene

  FoxP2 gene (nonhuman version)

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Freedom of Religion Foundation

  French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

  Freud, Sigmund

  frogs

  From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of

  Language (Corballis)

  fruit fly, genes and genome of

  Fula

  fundamental frequency

  Gage, Phineas

  Galápagos (Vonnegut)

  Galápagos Island babies

  Gallup, Gordon G.

  Gardner, Allan

  Gardner, Beatrix

  Gardner, Martin

  generative grammar

  generative linguistics

  generative semanticists

  generativity

  Genes, People, and Languages (Cavalli-Sforza)

  genes/genome

  language and

  of mice

  mutations of

  of plants

  and speech disorders

  see also specific genes

  genetic drift

  Genie (case study)

  genomics

  Gentner, Timothy

  Georgia State University

  Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates conference

  gestures

  evolution and

  by humans

  language and

  listeners and

  memory and

  universal grammar and

  see also pointing

  gibbons:

  gestures by

  syntax of

  Gigantopithecus

  Gilbert, Aubrey

  goats

  Golding, William

  Goldin-Meadow, Susan

  Goodall, Jane

  Grafton, Scott

  grammar

  Grammatical Theory in the United States from Bloomfield to Chomsky

  (Matthews)

  Grandin, Temple

  Great Britain

  Greenberg, Joseph

  Greenough, William

  Griffin (parrot)

  Groo, Melissa

  grooming

  Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language (Dunbar)

  Guinea

  Guthrie (sea lion)

  H1

  H2

  Halle, Morris

  Hare, Brian

  Harris, Randy Allen

  Harvard University

  Haskins Laboratories

  Hauser, Marc:

  animal language differentiation studied by

  on animals and music

  animals and numbers studied by

  on language as uniquely human

  on language evolution

  on pitch in vervet monkeys

  tamarin grammar studied by

  Hebrew

  hemispherectomy

  Herder, Johann Gottfried von

  Herman, Lou

  Herodotus

  Herto, Ethiopia

  Hindus

  hobbit (Homo floresiensis)

  Hockett, Charles

  homesign

  Homo erectus

  H. ergaster

  H. floresiensis

  H. habilis

  H. heidelbergensis

  H. rudolfensis

  H. sapiens, see humans homology

  Hoover (seal)

  Hopkins, William D.

  Howe, Catherine

  HOX genes

  human communication vs. animal communication

  Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain

  humans

  ancestry of

  apes’ relationship with

  bonobos’ relationship with

  chimpanzees’ relationship with

  EQ of

  evolution of see also language evolution

  genes and genome of

  see also specific genes

  gestures by

  gorillas’ relationship with

  language as unique to

  monkeys’ relationship with

  orangutans’ relationship with

  speech perception by

  tool use of

  vocal tract in

  see also brain, human; infants Hunt, Gavin

  hunting

  Hurford, Jim

  hyenas

  Iceland

  icons

  idioms

  Illinois State University

  imitation

  indexes

  Indo-European family

  Indonesia

  Indonesian (language)

  infants

  babbling of

  categorical perception by

  Galápagos Island question of

  languages distinguished by

  larynxes of

  pointing by

  speech liked by

  inference

  Infinite Gift, The (Yang)

  Institute for Advanced Study

  Institute of Child Health

  Internet

  intonation

  Iowa State University

  Israel

  Jackendoff, Ray

  on Chomsky

  on idioms

  on language evolution

  on music

  on nonlinguistic thinking

  on protolanguage

  on syntax

  on ways of thinking about language evolution

  Jakobson, Roman

  Jallo, George

  James IV, King of Scotland

 

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