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Works with three or more authors are listed in date order after all other works with the same first author.

Page numbers in
italics
refer to photographs or figures. ‘
fn
' after a page number refers to the footnote. Entries are presented in word-by-word format. For example, “semantic variables” appears before “semantics” as the first word is taken into account in the filing order.

A-bar chains 157, 161–162

abduction 22, 35–37

and language acquisition 254, 293

abstraction 397–398, 408

Achillea, epigenetics 100

acoustic perception 336

acteme 320

action vs. omission 322–323

Action Principle 312–313

adaptation in evolution 46

adaptive landscape 300

adjacency-cost 114

Adjacency Rule 112

adjectives

acting as sentence adverbials 146

squashiness 219–220

adjunction as a feature of syntax 126

adjuncts 137–138, 141, 210

adverbial modification 151–152

adverbs, hierarchy 141

aesthetic theory 293

agranular cortex (BA 6) 186

algebraic spaces 132
fn

ambiguities in language 20–22, 28

analogue magnitude system 77, 79–80

Analysis by Synthesis (AxS) 286–294

animacy, assessing 227

animals

cognition 61, 69–71, 174, 302–308

locomotion patterns 301–302

see also
bees; birds; rhesus monkeys; tamarins

Anleitung
(Trubetzkoy) 14

anthropological linguistics 23

aphasia 282

apple and box experiment 307–308

Aquinas, Thomas 312

argumental semantics 157

arguments vs. adjuncts 138, 141, 210

Aristotelian laws vs. Galilean laws 195–196

Arthur, Wallace 46

Artificial Grammar III 189

Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
(Chomsky) 25, 256, 406

atomic concepts 140

Atoms of Language
(Baker) 23, 198, 340

attention manipulation 244

auditory language comprehension model 354

axons, optimality 110

BA 6 (agranular cortex) 186

Baker, Mark 23, 106, 168, 198, 340, 385

Baldwin, Dare 244

Barner, D. et al 78, 307

Barriers
(Chomsky) 262

basal ganglia (BG) 366

Basic Grouping and Copy 48

Basque (language) 169–171

Bednekoff, P. A. and Balda, R. 64

bees 34–35, 64–68, 70–73

behavioral sciences 341

in 1950s 13–16

Bejan, A. and Marden, J. H. 118, 301

Belfast English 160, 162

belief states 249–250, 399

Berwick, Bob 407

Bever, Tom 55–56, 219–220

bilateral representation of language 282–283

bilinguals 347–348

binary bifurcation, analogy with language 118–119

biolinguistics 23–25, 294–295

etymology 13

perspective 16, 18–20, 24

biological interactions 87

birds 68, 71–72

jays 61–64, 391

pigeons 63–64

starlings 84, 192, 391

blame and intentionality 324

blank slate 398

mind as 94–95

at single cell stage 90–91

Bloomfield, L. 342

body plan in animals 89

Boeckx, Cedric 96, 151, 272, 280, 393

bottom up approach 25–26, 31

boundary conditions 294–295

brain 17–18, 332

activity 187, 346–347

cats 114

cost efficiency 114

damage 321, 352, 365, 371

evolution 41, 186

human and macaque 185

left hemisphere 281–282, 353, 355–365

optimization of wiring 109–119

positioning 111

structure 116

tractograms 190

Brain and Behavioral Sciences
(Striedter) 30–31

branching structures 182, 213, 214

Brannon, E. M. et al 63–64

Breitenstein, C. et al 346

bridge verbs 205

Brodmann, Korbinian 185

Broca, Paul 352

Broca's area 185, 186–191, 339–340, 353–354, 356–359

music processing 193–194

Caenorhabditis elegans
(roundworm), nervous system 111–112, 113, 114

Cage, John 316, 318

Canonical Form Constraint (CFC) 279–280, 289–290, 292

canonical sentence forms 56, 287

Cantor's proof 236

card identification tasks 194

caretaker speech 240, 241

Carey, Sue 37, 253

Carroll, Sean 24

Cartesian dualism 59, 60

cartographic approach 216–217, 220

Case 168–172, 178, 182

categorical imperative 320–321

categorical perception (CP) 84, 334–335

categories of syntax 135

category theory 402

cats, cerebral cortex 114

causal principles 225

causal skeleton of the world 18

Cayo Santiago (island) 305, 307

CC
see
corpus callosum

cells 101

design 116–117

evolution of 38–39

cerebral asymmetries 281–282

cerebral cortex

cats 114

granularity 185

nervous system 118

phylogenetic age 188, 191

CFC
see
Canonical Form Constraint

chains 157–159, 166

Chamorro (Austronesian language), wh-agreement 160, 165–166

chance in evolution 46

change-blindness manipulation 210