A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them.
After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer's Odyssey and Dr. Seuss's …

Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the
brain evolved to make language possible, through what Michael Arbib calls the Mirror …

It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are
intimately related. This relationship is frequently suggested to derive from a language …

The article analyzes the neural and functional grounding of language skills as well as their
emergence in hominid evolution, hypothesizing stages leading from abilities known to exist …

We propose reframing one of the key questions in the field of language evolution as what
was the original human-specific communicative system? With the help of cognitive …

The performance of language is multimodal, not confined to speech. Review of monkey and
ape communication demonstrates greater flexibility in the use of hands and body than for …

This project could not have been pulled off without the generous help of many. In the first
place I want to thank the Mawu people, who taught me their language and culture and made …

Historically, interjections have been treated in two different ways: as part of language, or as
non-words signifying feelings or states of mind. In this paper, I assess the relative strengths …

Jean-Louis Dessalles explores the co-evolutionary paths of biology, culture, and the great
human edifice of language, linking the evolution of the language to the general evolutionary …