The transition to language /
edited by Alison Wray.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- xi, 410 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Oxford linguistics Studies in the evolution of language ; 2 .
Papers presented at the Third International Conference on the Evolution of Language, held in 2000 at the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART I: MAKING READY FOR LANGUAGE: NECESSARY, BUT NOT SUFFICIENT ; PART II: INTERNAL TRIGGERS TO TRANSITION: GENES, PROCESSING, CULTURE, GESTURE, AND TECHNOLOGY ; PART III: EXTERNAL TRIGGERS TO TRANSITION: ENVIRONMENT, POPULATION, AND SOCIAL CONTEXT ; PART IV: THE ONWARD JOURNEY: DETERMINING THE SHAPE OF LANGUAGE