Beyond Mysticism? Review of Jackendoff, R. (2002) Foundations of Language, Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
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Newmeyer, F. J. (2002) Uniformitarian assumptions and language evolution research. In A. Wray (ed.) The Transition to Language. Studies in the Evolution of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Noble, W. and Davidson, I. (1991) Evolving remembrance of times past and future. Comment on Greenfield’s ‘Language, tools and brain’. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 14: 572.
Noble, W. and Davidson, I. (1996) Human Evolution, Language and Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Noble, W. and Davidson, I. (1997) Reply to Mithen. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 7: 279–86.
Pinker, S. (1994) The Language Instinct. The New Science of Language and Mind. London: Penguin Books.
Seyfarth, R. M. and Cheney, D. L. (1986) Vocal development in vervet monkeys. Animal Behaviour 34: 1450–68.
Studdert-Kennedy, M. (1998) The particulate origins of language generativity: from syllable to gesture. In J. Hurford, M. Studdert-Kennedy and C. Knight (eds) Approaches to the Evolution of Language: social and cognitive bases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Whiten, A., Goodall, J., McGrew, W. C., Nishida, T., Reynolds, V., Sugiyama, Y., Tutin, C. E. G., Wrangham, R. W. and Boesch, C. (1999) Cultures in chimpanzees. Nature 399: 682–85.
Wynn, T. and McGrew, W. C. (1989) An ape’s eye view of the Oldowan. Man. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24: 383–98.
Armstrong, D. F., Stokoe, W. C. and Wilcox, S. E. (1995) Gesture and the Nature of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bar-Yosef, O. and Kuhn, S. L. (1999) The big deal about blades: laminar technologies and human evolution. American Anthropologist 101: 322–38.
Bickerton, D. (1996) Language and Human Behavior. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Boëda, E. (1988) Le concept Levallois et evaluation de don champ d’application. Études et Recherches Archéologiques de l’Université de Liège 31: 13–26.
Boëda, E., Geneste, J. M., Griggo, C., Mercier, N., Muhesen, S., Reyss, J. L., Taha, A. and Valladas, H. (1999) A levallois point embedded in the vertebra of a wild ass (equus africanus): hafting, projectiles and mousterian hunting weapons. Antiquity 73: 394–402.
Burling, R. (1993) Primate calls, human language, and non-verbal communication. Current Anthropology 34: 25–53.
Carstairs-McCarthy, A. (1999) The Origins of Complex Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cheney, D. L. and Seyfarth, R. M. (1990) How Monkeys See the World. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Chomsky, N. (1975) Reflections on Language. New York: Pantheon.
Davidson, I. (1997) The evolution of language: assessing the evidence from non-human primates. Evolution of Communication 1: 133–52.
Davidson, I. (1998) Two views on language origins. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 8: 82–8.
Davidson, I. (2002) The ‘finished artefact fallacy’: Acheulean handaxes and language origins. In A. Wray (ed.) Transitions to Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Davidson, I. (2003) The archaeological evidence of language origins: states of art. In M. H. Christiansen and S. Kirby (eds) Language Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Davidson, I. and Noble, W. (1993) Tools and language in human evolution. In K. Gibson and T. Ingold (eds) Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
D’Errico, F. and Nowell, A. (2000) A new look at the Berekhat Ram figurine: implications for the origins of symbolism. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 10: 123–67.
Foley, R. and Lahr, M. M. (1997) Mode 3 technologies and the evolution of modern humans. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 7: 3–36.
Goren-Inbar, N. (1986) A figurine from the Acheulian site of Berekhat Ram. Mitukefat Haeven 19: 7–12.
Greenfield, P. M. (1991) Language, tools and brain: the ontogeny and phylogeny of hierarchically organized sequential behavior. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14: 531–95.
Greenfield, P. M. and Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S. (1990) Grammatical combination in Pan paniscus. In S.T. Parker and K. R. Gibson (eds) ‘Language’ and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Greenfield, P. M. and Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S. (1993) Comparing communicative competence in child and chimp: the pragmatics of repetition. Journal of Child Language 20: 1–26.
Henshilwood, C. S. and Sealy, J. (1997) Bone artefacts from the Middle Stone Age at Blombos cave, Southern Cape, South Africa. Current Anthropology 38: 890–5.
Henshilwood, C. S., Sealy, J. C., Yates, R., Cruz-Uribe, K., Goldberg, P., Grine, F. E., Klein, R. G., Poggenpoel, C., van Niekerk, K. and Watts, I. (2001) Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: preliminary report on the 1992–1999 excavations of the Middle Stone Age Levels. Journal of Archaeological Science 28: 421–48.
Hurford, J. R. and Fitch, T. (eds) (2002) Proceedings. (International Conference on the Evolution of Language 4.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard.
Jackendoff, R. (1999) Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 3: 272–9.
Lieberman, D., Ross, C. and Ravosa, M. (2000) The primate cranial base: ontogeny, function, and integration. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 43: 117–69.
Lieberman, D. E. and McCarthy, R. C. (1999) The ontogeny of cranial base angulation in humans and chimpanzees and its implications for reconstructing pharyngeal dimensions. Journal of Human Evolution 36: 487–517.
Marshack, A. (1997) The Berekhat Ram figurine: a late Acheulian carving from the Middle East. Antiquity 71: 327–37.
Newcomer, M. (1975) Punch technique and Upper Palaeolithic blades. In E. Swanson (ed.) Lithic Technology. The Hague: Mouton.
Newmeyer, F. J. (2002) Uniformitarian assumptions and language evolution research. In A. Wray (ed.) The Transition to Language. Studies in the Evolution of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Noble, W. and Davidson, I. (1991) Evolving remembrance of times past and future. Comment on Greenfield’s ‘Language, tools and brain’. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 14: 572.
Noble, W. and Davidson, I. (1996) Human Evolution, Language and Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Noble, W. and Davidson, I. (1997) Reply to Mithen. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 7: 279–86.
Pinker, S. (1994) The Language Instinct. The New Science of Language and Mind. London: Penguin Books.
Seyfarth, R. M. and Cheney, D. L. (1986) Vocal development in vervet monkeys. Animal Behaviour 34: 1450–68.
Studdert-Kennedy, M. (1998) The particulate origins of language generativity: from syllable to gesture. In J. Hurford, M. Studdert-Kennedy and C. Knight (eds) Approaches to the Evolution of Language: social and cognitive bases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Whiten, A., Goodall, J., McGrew, W. C., Nishida, T., Reynolds, V., Sugiyama, Y., Tutin, C. E. G., Wrangham, R. W. and Boesch, C. (1999) Cultures in chimpanzees. Nature 399: 682–85.
Wynn, T. and McGrew, W. C. (1989) An ape’s eye view of the Oldowan. Man. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24: 383–98.
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Davidson, I. (2007). Beyond Mysticism? Review of Jackendoff, R. (2002) Foundations of Language, Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 1(2), 337-345. https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.2005.1.2.337
