Table of Contents

I. General Considerations.- History of Glottogonic Theories.- Speech Origin: A Review.- Adaptationist and Nativist Positions on Language Origins: A Critique.- II. Cranial Anatomy.- A Systematic Relationship between Brain Size Increase and Larynx Transformation during Hominization.- Auditory Ossicles and the Evolution of the Primate Ear: A Biomechanical Approach.- III. Neuroanatomy.- Basic Features of Cortical Connectivity and Some Consideration on Language.- IV. Neurophysiology.- The Motor Theory of Language: Origin and Function.- The Neural Circuitry Underlying Primate Calls and Human Language.- Evolving Mixed-Media Messages and Grammatical Language: Secondary Uses of the Neural Sequencing Machinery Needed for Ballistic Movements.- V. Neuropsychology.- The Contribution of Psycholinguistics to the Study of Language Origins.- Cerebral Lateralization of Human Languages. Clinical and Experimental Data.- The Origin of Visible Language.- Implications of the Evolution of Writing for the Origin of Language: Can a Paleoneurologist Find Happiness in the Neolithic?.- VI. Comparative Psychology.- Prelinguistic Development of Children and Chimpanzees.- Language Origin: the Role of Animal Cognition.- VII. Primatology.- Evolution and Lateralization of the Two Great Primate Action Systems.- The Primate Isolation Call and the Evolution and Physiological Control of Human Speech.- Vocal Communication of Pan troglogytes: “Triangulating” to the Origin of Spoken Language.- Early Signs of Language in Cross-fostered Chimpanzees.- VIII. Paleoanthropology.- Fossil Skulls and Hominid Vocal Tracts: New Approaches to Charting the Evolution of Human Speech.- On the Evolutionary Biology of Speech and Syntax.- The Origin of Language: An Anthropological Approach.- On Emergent Pre-Language andLanguage Evolution and Transcendent Feedback from Language Production on Cognition and Emotion in Early Man.- IX. General Linguistics.- Roots of Language: The Forbidden Experiment.- Pragmatics and the Evolution of Syntax.- X. Historical Linguistics.- Language Evolution: Evidence from Historical Linguistics.- Evolution in Language: Evidence from the Romance Auxiliary.- XI. Philosophy.- Pre-Linguistic Roots of Language and Its Innate Ideas.- On the Origins of Philosophical Language.