TY - BOOK AU - Landsberg,Marge E. TI - The Genesis of Language: A Different Judgement of Evidence T2 - Studies in Anthropological Linguistics Series SN - 9783110847536 AV - P116 -- .G46 1988eb PY - 1988/// CY - Berlin/Boston PB - De Gruyter, Inc. KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Part I. Neurobiological advances -- Evolutionary neurobiology and the origin of language as a cognitive adaptation -- Language development and biological programming: behavioral and electrophysiological indices -- Primate communication, comparative neurology, and the origin of language reexamined -- Part II. Perceptual bases -- Grasping and the gesture theory of language origins -- Ways to accelerate progress in glottogonic research -- Implication and the evolution of language -- Perceptual bases for the evolution of speech -- Part III. Fossil evidence -- Neoteny and language evolution -- Language evolution and paedomorphosis -- Language evolution and paedomorphosis. A reply to Jan Wind -- Brain size and the evolution of language -- Laryngeal descent in 40.000 year old fossils -- Part IV. Linguistic evidence -- Live speech and preverbal communication -- On linguistic territoriality, iconicity and language evolution -- Vestiges of primeval phonology in certain ancient languages -- The synchronous development and kinesis: Further evidence -- Behavioral flexibility and the evolution of language -- Index N2 - No detailed description available for "The Genesis of Language" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3042390 ER -