Becoming Loquens

Contents: Uwe Jürgens: A comparison of the neural system underlying speech and non-speech vocal utterances - Ivo Budil: Evolution of vocal communication. Evidence from palaeo-laryngology - Sonia Ragir: How is a stone tool like a sentence? - Tiziano Telleschi: Origins of language and of society-culture relationships - Merlin Donald: Preconditions for the evolution of protolanguages - Leonard Rolfe: Phonesthemes as primary word forms - Stan Voronin: Approaching the iconic theory of language origin. Pertinent laws and tendencies from phonosemantics - Robin Allott: The articulatory basis of the alphabet - Alexander N. Kornev: Toward a neuropsychological model of phonological development - Tatiana V. Chernigovskaya/Yu. V. Natochin/V. V. Menshutkin: Principles of the evolution of natural and computer languages and physiological systems - Brigitte L. M. Bauer: From Latin to French: The linear development of word order - Alberto Nocentini: Homonymy, synonymy and duality of patterning. About the distinctive properties of human language - Vadim B. Kasevich: On Universal Grammar and cognitive primitives - James Cooke Brown: What can be learned from thirty years of teaching a logical language about the probable course of language evolution? - Walburga von Raffler-Engel: Personality formation during the pre-natal stage - Jordi Magraner: Oral statements concerning living unknown hominids. Analysis, criticism, and implications for language origins.

The author: Headed by Merlin Donald, the list of contributors includes seasoned scientists and younger enthusiastic investigators from Europe and North America. They not only present their observational data, discuss their experimental results, and submit their insightful interpretations, but they also display the cultural diversity that exists in the scientific approaches used across nations and continents.