The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (46 page)

Christiansen, Morten

Chukchi

Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston

Civil War, U.S.

Clever Hans (horse)

click languages

clones

Coburg-Gotha, Duke of

Code, Chris

co-evolution

cognition

animal

and language

nonlinguistic, Pinker and Jackendoff on

Cognition

cognitive genetics

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

colobus

color

Columbia University

combinatorial grammar

combinatorial structure

communication

animal vs. human

baboon

see also
gestures; language; pointing

comparative method

competence

conceptual intentional system

Congo, Republic of

Connecticut, University of

connectionism

contingency testers

Corballis, Michael

core syntax

Cornell University

cortex

Cosmides, Leda

Côte d’Ivoire

creole

crows

Culicover, Peter

culture

big genetic bang in

as force of evolution

Darwin, Charles

on language

Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
(Dennett)

DAVO (speech synthesizer)

Dawkins, Richard

Deacon, Terrence

deaf children

see also
signs, sign language

Dediu, Dan

deep structure

dendrites

Déné

Deneubourg, Jean-Louis

Dennett, Daniel

Descent of Man, The
(Darwin)

de Waal, Frans

Diamond, Jared

Dick, Fred

Dikika

discrete infinity

DNA

Dobzhansky, Theodosius

dogs

barking of

gestures by

larynx of

numbers understood by

vocal learning lacking in

dolphin research project

dolphins

babbling by

EQ of

gesture imitation by

language entropy of

reflections and

signature whistles of

tools used by

vocal imitation by

Doyle, Laurance

duality of patterning

Duke University

Dunbar, Robin

dyslexia

Dyson, Freeman

Dzanga-Sangha National Park

eagle

East London, University of

Eco, Umberto

Edinburgh, University of

Edinburgh Zoo

Edkins, Joseph

Egypt

Elephant Listening Project

elephants

Elodie (elephant)

Emory University

emotion

Emx gene

Enard, Wolfgang

encephalization quotient (EQ)

English

entropy

Essay on the Origin of Languages
(Rousseau)

Ethiopia

Everest, Mount

Everett, Daniel

Everett, Keren

evolution, biological

alarm calls and

Bickerton on

computer model of

concept of zero and

culture as force of

of dolphins

extinction and

of eye

future of

Gould on

of humans

music and

see also
co-evolution; language evolution; natural selection; sexual selection

evolutionary linguistics

evolutionary psychology

Evolution of Language conference:

of 1996

of 2004

of 2006

Evolution of the Chinese Language, The
(Edkins)

Exeter, University of

eye, evolution of

faces

“Faculty of Language, The” (Hauser Chomsky, and Fitch)

farming

Ferrer i Cancho, Ramon

field linguists

finite state grammar

Fire in the Mind
(Johnson)

fish

Fisher, Simon

Fitch, Tecumseh

on alarm calls

on animal perception-production asymmetry

on animal rhythm

on animal speech

on language as uniquely human

on language evolution

on music

tamarin grammar studied by

on visual-auditory links

Fodor, Jerry

formant frequency

fossil record

Fouts, Roger

fowl, sounds produced by

FOXP2 gene

FoxP2 gene (nonhuman version)

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Freedom of Religion Foundation

French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Freud, Sigmund

frogs

From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of

Language
(Corballis)

fruit fly, genes and genome of

Fula

fundamental frequency

Gage, Phineas

Galápagos
(Vonnegut)

Galápagos Island babies

Gallup, Gordon G.

Gardner, Allan

Gardner, Beatrix

Gardner, Martin

generative grammar

generative linguistics

generative semanticists

generativity

Genes, People, and Languages
(Cavalli-Sforza)

genes/genome

language and

of mice

mutations of

of plants

and speech disorders

see also specific genes

genetic drift

Genie (case study)

genomics

Gentner, Timothy

Georgia State University

Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates conference

gestures

evolution and

by humans

language and

listeners and

memory and

universal grammar and

see also
pointing

gibbons:

gestures by

syntax of

Gigantopithecus

Gilbert, Aubrey

goats

Golding, William

Goldin-Meadow, Susan

Goodall, Jane

Grafton, Scott

grammar

Grammatical Theory in the United States from Bloomfield to Chomsky

(Matthews)

Grandin, Temple

Great Britain

Greenberg, Joseph

Greenough, William

Griffin (parrot)

Groo, Melissa

grooming

Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
(Dunbar)

Guinea

Guthrie (sea lion)

H1

H2

Halle, Morris

Hare, Brian

Harris, Randy Allen

Harvard University

Haskins Laboratories

Hauser, Marc:

animal language differentiation studied by

on animals and music

animals and numbers studied by

on language as uniquely human

on language evolution