(Ebook) Birdsong, Speech, and Language: Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain (The MIT Press) by Associate Professor of Behavioural Biology Institute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences Johan J Bolhuis, Professor of Linguistics/ Director of the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Martin Everaert ISBN 9780262528849, 0262528843

(Ebook) Birdsong, Speech, and Language: Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain (The MIT Press) by Associate Professor of Behavioural Biology Institute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences Johan J Bolhuis, Professor of Linguistics/ Director of the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Martin Everaert ISBN 9780262528849, 0262528843

Scholars have long been captivated by the parallels between birdsong and human speech and language. In this book, leading scholars draw on the latest research to explore what birdsong can tell us about the biology of human speech and language and the consequences for evolutionary biology. After outlining the basic issues involved in the study of both language and evolution, the contributors compare birdsong and language in terms of acquisition, recursion, and core structural properties, and then examine the neurobiology of song and speech, genomic factors, and the emergence and evolution of language. ContributorsHermann Ackermann, Gabriël J.L. Beckers, Robert C. Berwick, Johan J. Bolhuis, Noam Chomsky, Frank Eisner, Martin Everaert, Michale S. Fee, Olga Fehér, Simon E. Fisher, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Jonathan B. Fritz, Sharon M.H. Gobes, Riny Huijbregts, Eric Jarvis, Robert Lachlan, Ann Law, Michael A. Long, Gary F. Marcus, Carolyn McGettigan, Daniel Mietchen, Richard Mooney, Sanne Moorman, Kazuo Okanoya, Christophe Pallier, Irene M. Pepperberg, Jonathan F. Prather, Franck Ramus, Eric Reuland, Constance Scharff, Sophie K. Scott, Neil Smith, Ofer Tchernichovski, Carel ten Cate, Christopher K. Thompson, Frank Wijnen, Moira Yip, Wolfram Ziegler, Willem Zuidema