Language Evolution

Abstract
This book addresses fundamental questions about how humans acquired language and how language evolved with new and compelling arguments. The book spans an extensive range of different scientific disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, biology, cognitive science, computational linguistics, linguistics, neurophysiology, neuropsychology, neuroscience, philosophy, primatology, psycholinguistics, and psychology. It provides up-to-date perspectives on language evolution in as non-technical a way as possible without overly simplifying the issues. Topics range from language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche, to linguistics and what it can tell about the origins of language, universal grammar and semiotic constraints, the different origins of symbols and grammar, archaeological evidence of language origins, human components of the language faculty, neural basis for language readiness, gestural origins of language, the gestural origin of discrete infinity, motor control and speech, language learning, and grammatical assimilation.

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