The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (48 page)

Language Origins

languages:

extinction of

tones in

language suite

larynx

“Later Stone Age,”

Leakey, Mary

Leavens, David

left hemisphere

Leipzig gesture conference

leopard

Lerdahl, Fred

Lewontin, Richard

lexicons

lexigrams

Lieberman, Philip

basal ganglia and

on brain

on cognitive flexibility

culture and

on language evolution

Mount Everest study by

Parkinson’s disease study by

Linguistics Society of America

Linguistics Wars, The
(Harris)

lion

lips

lizards

Locke, John

logical form

Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, The
(Chomsky)

London Philological Society

London Review of Books

Lord of the Flies
(Golding)

Loreto, Vittorio

Lucy
(Australopithecus afarensis)

Lund University

lungs

Lupyan, Gary

Lying Stones of Marrakech, The
(Gould)

Lyn, Heidi

macaques

McClelland, Jay

McCloskey, James

McCowan, Brenda

McDermott, Josh

McGurk effect

Maclay, Howard

McNeill, David

McNeill Laboratory Center

McWhorter, John

malaria

Manhattan Institute

March 2002 Evolution of Language conference

Marcus, Gary

Marino, Lori

Maryland, University of

Matata (bonobo)

Matthews, Peter

Max Planck Institute

meaning

Melbourne, University of

Mellars, Paul

memory

gestures and

Mensa

mentally retarded

metarepresentations

mice, genes and genome of

microcephalin gene

microglia

mirror neurons

mirrors

MIT

Occasional Papers series at

Mithen, Steven

mockingbirds

Mohawk

monkey, titi

monkeys

brains of

Campbell’s

counting ability of

cries of

Diana

generalizing ability of

gestures by

humans’ relationship with

larynx of

marmoset

squirrel

monkeys, capuchin: imitation by

syntax of

monkeys, vervet

alarm calls of

pitch used by

Montalbetti, Mario

Montpellier, University of

morphemes

morphology

Morris Symposium on the Evolution of

Language

motherese

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

mouths

Mulcahy, Nicholas

Munduruku

music

muzzle wipe

Nabu

narrow syntax

NASA

NATO

Natural History

natural selection

Nature Neuroscience

Neanderthals

neocortex

neural circuits

neural tube

neurogenetics

neurons

mirror

Neurosciences Institute

Nevada, University of

New England Aquarium

Newmeyer, Frederick

Newsweek

Newton, Isaac

New York Academy of Sciences

New York Aquarium

New York Review of Books

New York Times

New York University

Ngatatjara

Nicaraguan Sign Language

Nilsson, Dan-Eric

Nim Chimpsky (chimpanzee)

Nissley, Lacy

“Noam’s Ark” (Bever and Montalbetti)

nose

numbers

occipital lobe

Okavango Delta

Oklahoma, University of

Olivier, Laurence

onomatopoeia

n On the Origin of Species
(Darwin)

orangutans

future planning by

gestures by

humans’ relationship with

kissing sounds produced by

tools used by

Origins and Evolution of Language and

Speech

Orrorin tugenensis

Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences

Otx gene

Oxford University

Özyürek, Asli

Pääbo, Svante

Panbanisha (bonobo)

Panpanzee (chimpanzee)

Panthéon

pantomime

Papuan languages

parameters

Paranthropus boisei

parietal lobe

Paris

Parkinson’s disease

parrots

imitation by

sounds produced by

past tense

Patterson, Penny

PAX6 gene

Payne, Katy

Peirce, Charles Sanders

Pelger, Susanne

penis offer

Pennsylvania, University of

Pepperberg, Irene

perception

performance

“Pessimistic Estimate of the Time

Required for an Eye to Evolve

An” (Nilsson and Pelger)

PET imaging

phenome

Phoenix (dolphin)

phonemes

phonology

phrase structure grammar

phrase structure representations

phrenology

Phrygian

Piatelli-Palmarini, Massimo

pidgin

pigs

Pinker, Steven

basal ganglia and

on Chomsky

on cognitive genetics

on “critical period” model

on descended larynx

on genes and language

on Gould

at Gould debate

Jackendoff’s paper on nonlinguistic thinking with

on language evolution

on music

on speech perception

work on past tense by

Pirahã tribe

pitch

Pittsburgh, University of

Plotnik, Joshua

P-markers

pointing

by apes

by bonobos

by chimpanzees

by monkeys

Poole, Joyce

population genetics

porpoises

poverty of stimulus

prefrontal cortex

Premack, David

primates: calls of

gestures by

see also specific primates
Prince, Alan

Princeton University

Principia Mathematica
(Newton)

principles and parameters theory

Pritchard, Jonathan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

prosody

Prospect

Prospect Park Zoo

protolanguage

proto-sign

proto-speech

Psammetichus, Pharaoh

psycholinguistics

psycholinguists

Purves, Dale

Pygmy

Pythagoras

QRIO humanoid robot

quail

Ragir, Sonia

rats

basal ganglia possessed by

genome of

grooming by

reciprocation

recursion

reflections

Reiss, Diana

Relevance: Communication and Cognition
(Wilson)