The evolutionary emergence of language : social function and the origins of linguistic form

By C. Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, J. Hurford. 2000

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The co-evolution of intersubjectivity and bodily mimesis (2008, background): “The more “holophrastic” version of this hypothesis – according to which the first expressions are/were more like formulaic sentences such as How are you? than words (Zlatev 1997; Wray 2000) – has been referred to as “protosign” (Arbib 2003; 2005).”
Symbol grounding and the symbolic theft hypothesis (2002, background): “Inothermodels(e.g.,Kirby2000),the symbols used for communication vary whilst an invariant semantic layer is providedbymeansofalistofnamesofsemanticcategories(e.g., " John " , " Mary " , " love " ).”
The relation between language and theory of mind in development and evolution (2002, background): “Specifically, imitation would enable cross-member reliability in vocalization (De Boer, 2000; Studdert-Kennedy, 2000a); joint attention would enable cross-member reliability for acts of vocal reference (Baldwin, 1993); and desire sensitivity would launch the interpretation of vocalized reference as…”
Origins of human communication (2008, background): “…attention to the topic of the human language evolution from several points of view (e.g., Burling, 2005; Corballis, 2002; Christiansen & Chater, 2008; Christiansen & Kirby, 2003; Deacon, 1997; Dunbar, 1996; Fitch, 2010; Knight et al., 2000; Pinker & Bloom, 1990; Tallerman, 2005; Wildgen, 2004).”
The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review (2005, positive): “…with biologists and cognitive scientists, and the valuable insights of decades of theoretical and comparative research are being re-integrated into the cognitive sciences and comparative biology (Rizzolatti and Arbib 1998; Calvin and Bickerton 2000; Jackendoff 2002; Hauser et al. 2002a).”
Linguistic diversity and language evolution (2016, background): “…is left alone it would take approximately 1,000 years for it to reach unintelligibility with its former self.1 One could then take archaeological information and infer how many languages would have been spoken in any place in the past, and obtain a far higher number than 6,500 (Pagel 2000).”