Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language

Philip Lieberman

    Preface

    1. The Mark of Evolution

    2. Primitive and Derived Features of Language

    3. The Singularity of Speech

    4. The Neural Bases of Language

    5. Motor Control and the Evolution of Language

    6. The Gift of Tongue

    7. Linguistic Issues

    8. Where We Might Go

    Notes

    References

    Index

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Philip Lieberman is Fred M. Seed Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.