The Evolutionary Emergence of Language

The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading scholars from linguistics primatology anthroplogy and cognitive science consider how language evolution can be understood by means of inference from the study of linked or analogous phenomena in language animal behaviour genetics neurology culture and biology. In their introduction the editors show how these approaches can be interrelated and deployed together through their use of comparable forms of inference and the similar conditions they place on the use of evidence. The Evolutionary Emergence of Language will interest everyone concerned with this intriguing and important subject including those in linguistics biology anthropology archaeology neurology and cognitive science.