Studies in Language Origins

1. Notes on contributors; 2. Introduction: Language origins: A fresh start (by Bichakjian, Bernard H.); 3. The origin of language: The general problem (by Allott, Robin); 4. Gesture and deixis (by Rolfe, Leonard); 5. Moulded gestures and guided syntax: Scenario of a linguistic breakthrough (by Yau, Shun-chiu); 6. A student of oral traditions looks at the origins of language (by Creed, Robert Payson); 7. The meaning of duality of patterning and its importance in language evolution (by Pulleyblank, Edward G.); 8. Language origins and the red marble theory (by Key, Mary Ritchie); 9. Glossogenesis in endolinguistic and exolinguistic perspective: Palaeoanthropological data (by Grolier, Eric de); 10. The Upper Palaeolithic expansion of supernaturalism and the advent of fully developed spoken language (by Hewes, Gordon W.); 11. The domestication of fire and the origins of language (by Goudsblom, J.); 12. The evolutionary history of the human speech organs (by Wind, Jan); 13. The Aquatic Ape Theory and the origin of speech (by Morgan, Elaine); 14. Language innateness and speech pathology (by Bichakjian, Bernard H.); 15. Language origin and the Island of Reil (Insula Reilii) (by Irsigler, F.J.); 16. The vestibular system and language evolution (by Daniel, Hal J.); 17. Acoustical communication in birds and its differences from human language (by Dhondt, Andre A.); 18. Speech act taxonomy, chimpanzee communication, and the evolutionary basis of language (by Reiss, Nira); 19. Author index; 20. Subject index