The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review

By W. Tecumseh Fitch. 2005

202 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental Biology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d705bb5b3785faa6621e40580f5bdf67f94bdce5

How researchers see this paper

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In Cultural Studies

1. N. Chater
2. Morten H. Christiansen
3. B. Waller
4. Katja Liebal
5. K. Slocombe

In Developmental Biology

1. Morten H. Christiansen
2. N. Chater
3. B. Waller
4. Katja Liebal
5. K. Slocombe

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Morten H. Christiansen
2. N. Chater

Citations in the corpus

• Language as shaped by the brain. (2008, background): “However, as we note further on in section 6.5, any given linguistic phenomenon is likely to arise from a combination of multiple constraints that cut across these groupings, and, thus, across different kinds of brain mechanisms.”
• The language void: the need for multimodality in primate communication research (2011, background): “These proposals add to a growing number of suggestions concerning how to advance the field of language evolution productively, including those advocating the production of precise testable models (e.g. Brighton et al. 2006) and hypotheses (e.g. Fitch 2005).”
• Birdsong, Speech, and Language: Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain (2013, unknown): “Adopting the logic of comparative reconstruction, we can then ask which aspects of modern speech and song are shared, and thereby reconstruct this earlier system ( Fitch, 2005b ).”