List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Preface

Introduction: Primatological Perspectives on Language

Barbara J. King

Viewed from Up Close: Monkeys, Apes, and Language-Origins Theories

Barbara J. King

Primate Social Organization, Gestural Repertoire Size, and Communication Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Macaques

Dorio Maestripieri

An Empiricist View of Language Evolution and Development

Charles T. Snowdon

Ape Language: Between a Rock and Hard Place

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Language Evolution and Expansions of Multiple Neurological Processing Areas

Kathleen R. Gibson

Stephen Jessee

The Game of the Name: Continuity and Discontinuity in Language Origins

Iain Davidson

Children's Transition to Language: A Human Model for Development of the Vocal Repertoire in Extant and Ancestral Primate Species?

Lorraine McCune

Motivation, Conventionalization, and Arbitrariness in the Origin of Language

Robbins Burling

The Invention and Ritualization of Language

Sherman Wilcox

References

Index