Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
Update search
NARROW
Format
Subjects
Book Series
Date
Availability
1-15 of 15
Ronald J. Planer
Close
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Sort by
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 October 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13906.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262366038
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 October 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13906.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262366038
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 October 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13906.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262366038
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 October 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13906.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262366038
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 October 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13906.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262366038
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 October 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13906.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262366038
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 October 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13906.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262366038
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 October 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13906.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262366038
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 October 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13906.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262366038
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 October 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13906.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262366038
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 October 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13906.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262366038
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 October 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13906.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262366038
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 October 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13906.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262366038
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 October 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13906.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262366038
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 12 October 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13906.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262366038
A novel account of the evolution of language and the cognitive capacities on which language depends. In From Signal to Symbol , Ronald Planer and Kim Sterelny propose a novel theory of language: that modern language is the product of a long series of increasingly rich protolanguages evolving over the last two million years. Arguing that language and cognition coevolved, they give a central role to archaeological evidence and attempt to infer cognitive capacities on the basis of that evidence, which they link in turn to communicative capacities. Countering other accounts, which move directly from archaeological traces to language, Planer and Sterelny show that rudimentary forms of many of the elements on which language depends can be found in the great apes and were part of the equipment of the earliest species in our lineage. After outlining the constraints a theory of the evolution of language should satisfy and filling in the details of their model, they take up the evolution of words, composite utterances, and hierarchical structure. They consider the transition from a predominantly gestural to a predominantly vocal form of language and discuss the economic and social factors that led to language. Finally, they evaluate their theory in terms of the constraints previously laid out.