Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language | nr. 13
• This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a h... Lees meer

Evolutionary Syntax

Ljiljana Progovac

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
• In this book, Ljiljana Progovac proposes a gradualist, adaptationist approach to the evolution of syntax, subject to natural selection. She provides a... Lees meer

The Origins of Vowel Systems

Bart de Boer

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language | nr. 1
• This book addresses tendencies of human vowel systems from the point of view of self-organization. It uses computer models to show that tendencies of ... Lees meer

The Prehistory of Language

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language | nr. 11
• 'When, why, and how did language evolve?' 'Why do only humans have language?' This book looks at these and other questions about the origins and evolu... Lees meer

Language Origins

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
• This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how and why it evolved; how it came to be culturally transmitt... Lees meer

The Origin of Speech

Peter Macneilage

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
• This book explores the origin and evolution of speech. The human speech system is in a league of its own in the animal kingdom and its possession dwar... Lees meer

The Talking Ape

Robbins Burling

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
• Humans never run out of things to say. We explain, we cajole, we gossip, and we flirt--all with the help of language. But how in the space of several ... Lees meer

The Nature and Origin of Language

Denis Bouchard

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language | nr. 18
• This book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language then evolved. Its four parts are concerned with different views ... Lees meer

The Origins of Vowel Systems. Studies in Teh Evolution of Language

Bart de Boer, B De Boer

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language | nr. 1
• This book addresses tendencies of human vowel systems from the point of view of self-organization. It uses computer models to show that tendencies of ... Lees meer

Why We Talk

Jean-Louis Dessalles

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
• Constant exchange of information is integral to our societies. Jean-Louis Dessalles explores how this came into being. He develops a view of language ... Lees meer

The Transition to Language

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
• Linguists, biological anthropologists, and cognitive scientists come together in this book to explore the origins and early evolution of phonology, sy... Lees meer

Social Origins of Language Sel

Knight Lewis Eds Dor

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language | nr. 19
• This book offers an exciting new perspective on the origins of language. Language is conceptualized as a collective invention, on the model of writing... Lees meer

Evolutionary Emergence of Language

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language | nr. 17
• The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading scho... Lees meer

The Nature and Origin of Language

Denis Bouchard

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language | nr. 18
• This book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language then evolved. Its four parts are concerned with different views ... Lees meer

The Prehistory of Language

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language | nr. 11
• 'When, why, and how did language evolve?' 'Why do only humans have language?' This book looks at these and other questions about the origins and evolu... Lees meer

The Transition to Language

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
• Linguists, biological anthropologists, and cognitive scientists come together in this book to explore the origins and early evolution of phonology, sy... Lees meer

Why We Talk

Jean-Louis Dessalles

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language | nr. 5
• Constant exchange of information is integral to our societies. Jean-Louis Dessalles explores how this came into being. He develops a view of language ... Lees meer

Language Evolution

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
• The leading scholars in the rapidly growing field of language evolution give readable accounts of their theories on the origins of language and reflec... Lees meer

Language Origins

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
• This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how and why it evolved; how it came to be culturally transmitt... Lees meer

Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, James R Hurford

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language | nr. 6
• Oudeyer combines insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and linguistics to explore questions about the origins of speech. He puts forward t... Lees meer

Evolutionary Syntax

Ljiljana Progovac

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
• In this book, Ljiljana Progovac proposes a gradualist, adaptationist approach to the evolution of syntax, subject to natural selection. She provides a... Lees meer

Language Evolution

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
• The leading scholars in the rapidly growing field of language evolution give readable accounts of their theories on the origins of language and reflec... Lees meer

The Origins of Meaning

James R Hurford

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language | nr. 8
• In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at how the world f... Lees meer

Evolution of Morphology

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
• This book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the more general contexts of human evolution and the origins of language. T... Lees meer