Studies on the Evolution of Language

The Origin of Speech Peter MacNeilage Pioneering investigation of one of the most intractable problems in natural science 10 April 2008 | £25.00 | hardback | 352 pages More details and ordering information

The Genesis of Grammar A Reconstruction Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva Presents the first reconstruction of all major grammatical categories 4 October 2007 | £80.00 | hardback | 352 pages More details and ordering information

The Origins of Meaning James Hurford Reveals the close links between human and animal meaning and communication 30 August 2007 | £21.00 | hardback | 352 pages More details and ordering information

The Talking Ape How Language Evolved Robbins Burling Sheds new light on evolutionary psychology and human evolution 8 March 2007 | £9.99 | paper | 298 pages More details and ordering information

Why We Talk The Evolutionary Origins of Language Jean-Louis Dessalles Translated by James Grieve Addresses hot issues of the existence and interface between linguistic modules 4 January 2007 | £37.00 | hardback | 395 pages More details and ordering information

Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech Pierre-Yves Oudeyer James R. Hurford Unites insights from evolution, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and speech science 6 April 2006 | £75.00 | Hardback | 192 pages More details and ordering information

The Talking Ape How Language Evolved Robbins Burling The most convincing account of the origins of language ever published 25 August 2005 | £16.99 | Hardback | 296 pages More details and ordering information

Language Origins Perspectives on Evolution Edited by Maggie Tallerman Latest developments in a thriving cross-disciplinary project 26 May 2005 | £95.00 | hardback | 446 pages More details and ordering information

Language Evolution Edited by Morten H. Christiansen and Simon Kirby Addresses fundamental questions of how humans aquired language and how language evolved with new and compelling arguments 24 July 2003 | £90.00 | hardback | 416 pages More details and ordering information

The Transition to Language Edited by Alison Wray Multidisciplinary, covering linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, psychology, biology, primatology, and artificial intelligence 21 March 2002 | £26.99 | paper | 424 pages More details and ordering information

The Origins of Vowel Systems Bart de Boer Investigates how the properties of human vowel systems can be explained 23 August 2001 | £25.00 | paper | 184 pages More details and ordering information