Language Evolution And The Brain
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Language Evolution And The Brain
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Author : James W. MINETTinett
language : en
Publisher: City University of HK Press
Release Date : 2009-07-07
Language Evolution And The Brain written by James W. MINETTinett and has been published by City University of HK Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A number of research groups around the world have begun to study how the brain acquires and processes language, but we still know comparatively little about it. Many such groups work on very specific, often narrow, problems. This approach is certainly necessary, but a broad perspective can be helpful, if not essential, too. This volume consists of an important collection of papers presented at the Seminar on Language, Evolution, and the Brain (SLEB), hosted by the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Kyoto, Japan, bringing together distinguished researchers with background in cognitive science, anthropology, linguistics, robotics, physics, etc. Major topics discussed here include: Creoles and pidgins, and their implications regarding language evolution. Quantitative analysis and modeling of various aspects of language evolution, including the evolution of lexical items and color terms, the emergence of linguistics categories, and the dynamics of language competition. The evolution of the human brain, and how that relates to language evolution. The evolution and the role of mirror neurons in both humans and non-humans. Evidence that the influence of language on color perception (an example of the Whorf Effect) is stronger for the right visual field than the left. This volume provides a multi-faceted discussion of how language evolves and shapes the brain that may entice university students and researchers to delve into this field with more background and curiosity.
The Symbolic Species
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Author : Terrence William Deacon
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1997
The Symbolic Species written by Terrence William Deacon and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Discusses the evolution of language from the viewpoint of symbolic reference as opposed to the conventional grammar-based theories.
The Symbolic Species
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Author : Terrence W. Deacon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Symbolic Species written by Terrence W. Deacon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Animal communication categories.
Human language is one of the most distinctive behavioural adaptations on the planet. Languages evolved in only one species, in only one way, without precedent, and without parallel. Hundreds of millions of years of evolution have produced hundreds of thousands of species with brains, and tens of thousands with complex learning abilities. Only one of these has ever wondered about its place in the whole scheme, because only one - through its language - evolved with the ability to do so. This book aims to alter the understanding of what it means to be human: the universe isn't a soulless, blindly spinning clockwork, but instead nascent hear and mind.
The Evolution Of Language
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Author : Andrey Vyshedskiy
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2025-04-23
The Evolution Of Language written by Andrey Vyshedskiy and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-23 with Science categories.
From renowned neuroscientist Dr. A. Vyshedskiy comes a bold and original account of the evolutionary journey that led to humanity's most defining trait: syntactic language. Drawing on over 40 years of research and his acclaimed course Neuroscience of Consciousness and the Evolution of Language at Boston University, Vyshedskiy masterfully bridges cutting-edge neuroscience with anthropology, linguistics, and evolutionary biology. Seventy thousand years ago, Earth was home to at least six human species. Today, only Homo sapiens remain. What set us apart? What cognitive leap allowed early modern humans to outcompete all others and reshape the planet? This book traces the answer deep into evolutionary time-starting 200 million years ago with the rise of the six-layered neocortex in early mammals, enabling mental representations of objects, a foundational skill for language. It then follows a pivotal advance 70 million years ago, when primates evolved the lateral prefrontal cortex, enhancing executive control over perception and memory. The story accelerates 2 million years ago with the gradual emergence of combinatorial thought and protolanguage, culminating in a sudden cognitive revolution just 70,000 years ago: the birth of Prefrontal Synthesis. This uniquely human mental ability allowed for the creation of complex, nested ideas-fueling syntactic language, storytelling, and the cultural explosion that transformed our species. Unlike most books on language evolution that take historical or linguistic paths, Vyshedskiy grounds his narrative in neuroscience, offering a rich, interdisciplinary view of how anatomical changes, developmental windows, and cultural innovations aligned to give rise to the human mind. A powerful intellectual prequel to Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, this book is essential reading for anyone fascinated by the origins of human cognition. Provocative and insightful, it will resonate with readers of Jared Diamond, Noam Chomsky, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Ian Tattersall, Michael Gazzaniga, Robert Wright, and Daniel Everett.
Approaches To The Evolution Of Language
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Author : James R. Hurford
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-09-17
Approaches To The Evolution Of Language written by James R. Hurford and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is one of the first systematic attempts to bring language within the neo-Darwinian framework of modern evolutionary theory, without abandoning the vast gains in phonology and syntax achieved by formal linguistics over the past forty years. The contributors, linguists, psychologists, and paleoanthropologists, address such questions as: what is language as a category of behavior; is it an instrument of thought or of communication; what do individuals know when they know a language; what cognitive, perceptual, and motor capacities must they have to speak, hear, and understand a language? For the past two centuries, scientists have tended to see language function as largely concerned with the exchange of practical information. By contrast, this volume takes as its starting point the view of human intelligence as social, and of language as a device for forming alliances, in exploring the origins of the sound patterns and formal structures that characterize language.
The Evolution Of Language Out Of Pre Language
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Author : Talmy Givón
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2002-01-01
The Evolution Of Language Out Of Pre Language written by Talmy Givón and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The contributors to this volume are linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, primatologists, and anthropologists who share the assumption that language, just as mind and brain, are products of biological evolution. The rise of human language is not viewed as a serendipitous mutation that gave birth to a unique linguistic organ, but as a gradual, adaptive extension of pre-existing mental capacities and brain structures. The contributors carefully study brain mechanisms, diachronic change, language acquisition, and the parallels between cognitive and linguistic structures to weave a web of hypotheses and suggestive empirical findings on the origins of language and the connections of language to other human capacities. The chapters discuss brain pathways that support linguistic processing; origins of specific linguistic features in temporal and hierarchical structures of the mind; the possible co-evolution of language and the reasoning about mental states; and the aspects of language learning that may serve as models of evolutionary change.
The Evolution Of Human Languages
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Author : John A. Hawkins
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1992-10-20
The Evolution Of Human Languages written by John A. Hawkins and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-10-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This proceedings volume from a workshop by the same name sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute in August, 1989, covers a range of disciplines and subdisciplines of relevance to linguistics, phonetics, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, sociolinguistics, archaeological and anthropological linguistics, neuroanatomy, biology, and physics.
How The Brain Got Language
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language : en
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Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the brain evolved to make language possible, through what Michael Arbib calls the Mirror System Hypothesis. Because of mirror neurons, monkeys, chimps, and humans can learn by imitation, but only "complex imitation," which humans exhibit, is powerful enough to support the breakthrough to language. This theory provides a path from the openness of manual gesture, which we share with nonhuman primates, through the complex imitation of manual skills, pantomime, protosign (communication based on conventionalized manual gestures), and finally to protospeech. The theory explains why we humans are as capable of learning sign languages as we are of learning to speak. This fascinating book shows how cultural evolution took over from biological evolution for the transition from protolanguage to fully fledged languages. The author explains how the brain mechanisms that made the original emergence of languages possible, perhaps 100,000 years ago, are still operative today in the way children acquire language, in the way that new sign languages have emerged in recent decades, and in the historical processes of language change on a time scale from decades to centuries. Though the subject is complex, this book is highly readable, providing all the necessary background in primatology, neuroscience, and linguistics to make the book accessible to a general audience.
Language Evolution
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Author : Gábor Győri
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Release Date : 2001
Language Evolution written by Gábor Győri and has been published by Peter Lang Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The volume contains a selection of papers read at recent meetings of the Language Origins Society. The papers address the problem of the origins and evolution of language both as a biological capacity and as a symbol system. The discussions of these issues include approaches from such various fields as biology, ethology, linguistics, philosophy, primatology and psychology. The book is divided into three parts according to the main perspectives taken by the contributors. Part I addresses the relationship between evolution and language and deals with the problem of language origins specifically from various aspects within the framework of human evolution. Part II deals with the question of language structure and function as shaped by evolution. Part III discusses the views of three famous philosophers on language and how these views can be utilized in explanations of language origins. Contents: Evolutionary biological aspects of language origins: hominid evolution, forms of selection, the effect of encephalization, etc. - Problems of the evolution of communication and cognition - Possible origins of linguistic structure and function from linguistic and philosophical perspectives.
Language
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Author : George Melville Bolling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Language written by George Melville Bolling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Comparative linguistics categories.
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society in v. 1-11, 1925-34. After 1934 they appear in Its Bulletin.