The Origin of Speech

PART 1 INTRODUCTION; 1. Background: The Intellectual Context; 2. Getting to the Explanation of Speech; PART 2 SPEECH AND ITS ORIGIN: THE FRAME/CONTENT THEORY; 3. The Nature of Modern Hominid Speech; 4. Speech in Deep TIme: How Speech Got Started; PART 3 THE RELATION BETWEEN ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY; 5. Ontogeny and Phylogeny 1: The Frame Stage; 6. Ontogeny and Phylogeny 2: The Frame/Content Stage; 7. The Origin of Words: How Frame-Stage Patterns Acquired Meanings; PART 4 BRAIN ORGANIZATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SPEECH; 8. Evolution of brain Organization for Speech: Background; 9. A Dual Brain System for the Frame/Content Mode; 10. Evolution of Cerebral Hemispheric Specialization for Speech; PART 5 THE FRAME/CONTENT THEORY AND GENERATIVE LINGUISTICS; 11. Generative Phonology and the Origin of Speech; 12. The Generative Approach to Speech Acquisition; PART 6 A PERSPECTIVE ON SPEECH FROM MANUAL EVOLUTION; 13. An Amodal Phonology? Implications of the Existence of Sign Language; PART 7 LAST THINGS; 14. Ultimate Causes: Genes and Memes; 15. Conclusions; References; Index; Studies in the Evolution of Language