1: Alison Wray: Introduction: Conceptualizing Transition in an
Evolving Field
Part I: Making Ready for Language: Necessary, But Not
Sufficient
2: W. Tecumseh Fitch: Comparative Vocal Production and the
Evolution of Speech: Reinterpreting the Descent of the Larynx
3: Kazuo Okanoya: Sexual Display as a Syntactic Vehicle: The
Evolution of Syntax in Birdsong and Human Language through Sexual
Selection
4: H. S. Terrace: Serial Expertise and the Evolution of
Language
Part II: Internal Triggers to Transition: Genes, Processing,
Culture, Gesture, and Technology
5: T. J. Crow: Protocadherin XY: A Candidate Gene for Cerebral
Asymmetry and Language
6: Alison Wray: Dual Processing in Protolanguage: Performance
Without Competence
7: Chris Knight: Language and Revolutionary Consciousness
8: Michael C. Corballis: Did Language Evolve from Manual
Gestures?
9: Iain Davidson: The 'Finished Artefact Fallacy': Acheulean
Handaxes and Language Origins
Part III: External Triggers to Transition: Environment, Population,
and Social Context
10: Derek Bickerton: Foraging Versus Social Intelligence in the
Evolution of Protolanguage
11: Bradley Tonkes and Janet Wiles: Methodological Issues in
Simulating the Emergence of Language
12: L. Steels, F. Kaplan, A. McIntyre, and J. Van Looveren: Crucial
Factors in the Origins of Word-Meaning
13: Sonia Ragir: Constraints on Communities with Indigenous Sign
Languages: Clues to the Dynamics of Language Genesis
Part IV: The Onward Journey: Determining the Shape of Language
14: Robbins Burling: The Slow Growth of Language in Children
15: James R. Hurford: The Roles of Expression and Representation in
Language Evolution
16: Morten H. Christiansen and Michelle R. Ellefson: Linguistic
Adaptation Without Linguistic Constraints: The Role of Sequential
Learning in Language Evolution
17: Frederick J. Newmeyer: Uniformitarian Assumptions and Language
Evolution Research
18: Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva: On the Evolution of Grammatical
Forms
Alison Wray gained her BA and D.Phil. degrees from the University
of York. She has worked in departments of music, linguistics, and
communication, and her research focuses on three major areas:
historical pronunciation for early music, formulaic language, and
language evolution. She has published papers and chapters on all
three areas, and her books include: The Focusing Hypothesis (1992),
Projects in Linguistics (1998, with Trott and Bloomer) and
Formulaic Language and the Lexicon (2002).
... a thought-provoking volume, with implications not just for
language evolution but for how we conceptualise language
acquisition, language structure and language change.
*Journal of Linguistics*
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