The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (49 page)

relevance theory

Renard, Violette

rhythm

Rico (collie)

Rizzolatti, Giacomo

Roma, Università di

Rome Evolution of Language conference (2006)

Rosen, Charles

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Rumbaugh, Duane

Russell, Bertrand

Russia

Sahelanthropus tchadensis
(Toumai)

St. Andrews, University of

Sanders, Ira

Sapir, Edward

Sapolsky, Robert

Sarah (ape)

Sarasvati

Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue

animals and music studied by

on brain plasticity

on language evolution

Schaik, Carel van

Schimper (“traveller”)

Schlaggar, Brad

Schooler, Jonathan

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Schwartz, David

Science

Scientific American Frontiers

seals

Selfish Gene, The
(Dawkins)

semantics

semiotics

Senegal

Senghas, Ann

sensory-motor system

SETI

sexual selection

Seyfarth, Robert

Shannon, Claude

Sherman, William Tecumseh

Sherman (chimpanzee)

sickle-cell gene

SIGLEC11

signs, sign language

Al-Sayyid Bedouin

American

homesign

Nicaraguan

proto-

Simpler Syntax
(Culicover and Jackendoff)

Singing Neanderthals, The: The Origins of

Music, Language, Mind and Body

(Mithen)

Skinner, B. F.

Slocombe, Katie

social syntax

Société de Linguistique

sociobiology

somatosensory cortex

songs

Sony Computer Science Laboratories

sound

South Africa

Southern California, University of

spandrels

speech

brain and

computer modeling of

disorders of

evolution of

human learning of

language evolution and

perception of

proto-

universal grammar and

speech recognition systems

speech synthesizers

Sperber, Dan

spindle cell

spoonerisms

Stanford University

starlings

Steels, Luc

Stelfox, Sean

Stephen, Leslie

Stephenson, Neal

stimulus-response

Sting

Stony Brook conference

stuttering

Sussex, University of

swearing

Sweden

syllables

Symbolic Species, The
(Deacon)

symbols

synapses

syntactic structure

Syntactic Structures
(Chomsky)

syntactocentrism

syntax

abstract

basal ganglia and

as computational algorithm

core

evolution of

and homesign

intricacy and power of

narrow

as sophisticated accounting system

syrinx

System of the World, The
(Stephenson)

Taï Forest

Taï National Park

Taliban

tamarins

Tamuli (bonobo)

Tanzania

Tecumseh (Indian leader)

Terrace, Herb

Thailand

theory of mind

theta-theory

Thoth

throats

Time

T-markers

Tomasello, Mike

tongues

Toronto, University of

Toumai
(Sahelanthropus tchadensis)

Toward an Evolutionary Biology of

Language
(Lieberman)

Trager, George

transformations

Trehub, Sandra

Tufts University

Turkana Boy

Uganda

universal grammar (UG)

University College London Institute of

Child Health

uvula

Vargha-Khadem, Faraneh

Verbal Behavior
(Skinner)

verbs

Viking Press Modern Masters series

visual cortex

vocal cords

voice recognition

Vonnegut, Kurt

Wallis, Janette

Washington University

Washoe (ape)

Webb, John

Webster, Noah

Weir, Alex

Wells, Spencer

Wenner-Gren Foundation for

Anthropological Research

Wernicke’s area

WGBH

whales

Whorf, Benjamin Lee

Williams, Robin

Wilson, Deirdre

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

words

age of

alarm calls and

animals and

early learning of

and homesign

as interfaces

invention of

sounds of

World War I

World War II

writing

Wynn, Karen

Yang, Charles

York University

zebra

zero

Zipf, George

Zuberbühler, Klaus