The leading scholars in the rapidly growing field of language evolution give readable accounts of their theories on the origins of language and reflect on the most important current issues and debates. As well as providing a guide to their own published research in this area they highlight what they see as the most relevant research of others. The authors come from a wide range of disciplines involved in language evolution including linguistics, cognitive science, computational science, primatology, and archaeology.

1. Language Evolution: The Hardest Problem in Science? 2. Language as an Adaptation to the Cognitive Niche 3. The Language Mosaic and its Evolution 4. What can the Field of Linguistics Tell Us About the Origins of Language? 5. Symbol and Structure: A Comprehensive Framework for Language Evolution 6. On the Different Origins of Symbols and Grammar 7. Universal Grammar and Semiotic Constraints 8. The Archaeological Evidence of Language Origins: States of the Art 9. What are the Uniquely Human Components of the Language Faculty? 10. The Evolving Mirror System: A Neural Basis for Language Readiness 11. From Hand to Mouth: the Gestural Origins of Language 12. The Origin and Subsequent Evolution of Language 13. Launching Language: the Gestural Origin of Discrete Infinity 14. Motor Control, Speech, and the Evolution of Human Language 15. From Language Learning to Language Evolution 16. Grammatical Assimilation 17. Language, Learning, and Evolution

Morten H. Christiansen is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. He is co-editor of Connectionist Psycholinguistics published by Ablex in 2001. Simon Kirby is a British Academy Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh: his book, Function, Selection, and Innateness was published by OUP in 1999.

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