The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language

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by Christine Kenneally

syntax

  abstract

  basal ganglia and

  as computational algorithm

  core

  evolution of

  and homesign

  intricacy and power of

  narrow

  as sophisticated accounting system

  syrinx

  System of the World, The (Stephenson)

  Taï Forest

  Taï National Park

  Taliban

  tamarins

  Tamuli (bonobo)

  Tanzania

  Tecumseh (Indian leader)

  Terrace, Herb

  Thailand

  theory of mind

  theta-theory

  Thoth

  throats

  Time

  T-markers

  Tomasello, Mike

  tongues

  Toronto, University of

  Toumai (Sahelanthropus tchadensis)

  Toward an Evolutionary Biology of

  Language (Lieberman)

  Trager, George

  transformations

  Trehub, Sandra

  Tufts University

  Turkana Boy

  Uganda

  universal grammar (UG)

  University College London Institute of

  Child Health

  uvula

  Vargha-Khadem, Faraneh

  Verbal Behavior (Skinner)

  verbs

  Viking Press Modern Masters series

  visual cortex

  vocal cords

  voice recognition

  Vonnegut, Kurt

  Wallis, Janette

  Washington University

  Washoe (ape)

  Webb, John

  Webster, Noah

  Weir, Alex

  Wells, Spencer

  Wenner-Gren Foundation for

  Anthropological Research

  Wernicke’s area

  WGBH

  whales

  Whorf, Benjamin Lee

  Williams, Robin

  Wilson, Deirdre

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig

  words

  age of

  alarm calls and

  animals and

  early learning of

  and homesign

  as interfaces

  invention of

  sounds of

  World War I

  World War II

  writing

  Wynn, Karen

  Yang, Charles

  York University

  zebra

  zero

  Zipf, George

  Zuberbühler, Klaus

  Table of Contents

  Prelude

  Introduction

  I. LANGUAGE IS NOT A THING

  Prologue

  1. Noam Chomsky

  2. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

  3. Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom

  4. Philip Lieberman

  II. IF YOU HAVE HUMAN LANGUAGE…

  5. You have something to talk about

  6. You have words

  7. You have gestures

  8. You have speech

  9. You have structure

  10. You have a human brain

  11. Your genes have human mutations

  III. WHAT EVOLVES?

  12. Species evolve

  13. Culture evolves

  14. Why things evolve

  IV. WHERE NEXT?

  15. The future of the debate

  16. The future of language and evolution

  Epilogue: The babies of Galápagos

  Acknowledgments

  Notes

  Bibliography

  Index

 

 

 


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