Birdsong, Speech, and Language: Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain
by Bolhuis, Johan J. and Martin Everaert, editors

Format: Hardcover
Code: 14118
Condition: New
Product Details
After outlining the basic issues involved in the study of both language and evolution, the contributors compare birdsong and language in terms of acquisition, recursion, and core structural properties, and then examine the neurobiology of song and speech, genomic factors, and the emergence and evolution of language.
Contributors: Hermann Ackermann, Gabriël J. L. Beckers, Robert C. Berwick, Johan J. Bolhuis, Frank Eisner, Martin Everaert, Michale S. Fee, Olga Fehér, Simon E. Fisher, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Jonathan B. Fritz, Sharon M. H. Gobes, Riny Huijbregts, Erich Jarvis, Robert Lachlan, Ann Law, Michael A. Long, Gary F. Marcus, Carolyn McGettigan, Daniel Mietchen, Richard Mooney, Sanne Moorman, Kazuo Okanoya, Christophe Pallier, Irene M. Pepperberg, Jonathan F. Prather, Franck Ramus, Eric Reuland, Constance Scharff, Sophie K. Scott, Neil Smith, Ofer Tchernichovski, Carel ten Cate, Christopher K. Thompson, Frank Wijnen, Moira Yip, Wolfram Ziegler, Willem Zuidema. Foreword by Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky.
ISBN: 9780262018609
Publisher: MIT Press
Year of Publication: 2013
Page Count: 544
Weight: 2.3 lb