Recent interest in the origins of language, within the strongly cognitive field of Evolutionary
Psychology, has predominantly focused upon the origins of syntax (cf. Hurford, Knight, & …

Why should one believe that evolutionary aspects could bring new insights into linguistics,
semiotics, and cognitive science? Saussure dismissed historical, and with them …

In a continuation of the conversation with Fitch, Chomsky, and Hauser on the evolution of
language, we examine their defense of the claim that the uniquely human, language-specific …

Debate on the origins of language has a long—and primarily speculative—history. Perhaps
its most significant milestone occurred in 1866, when the Société de Linguistique de Paris …

The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies
researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been …

In the normal course of events, children manifest linguistic competence equivalent to that of
adults in just a few years. Children can produce and understand novel sentences, they can …

Compares nonhuman primates and human infants with regard to key abilities that provide
the foundation for language. It makes the case for phylogenetic continuity across species …

Confusions about the nature of symbolic reference are at the core of two major challenges to
understanding human language. A failure to take into account the complex iconic and …

Humans and chimpanzees shared a common ancestor some time before 3.5 million years
ago, and still share a huge proportion of their genetic material. Yet their behaviour, and the …

The Emergence of Symbols: Cognition and Communication in Infancy provides information
pertinent to the nature and origin of symbols, the interdependence of language and thought …