Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2plfb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-21T14:46:46.822Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From signal to symbol: The evolution of language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 272 pp., ISBN: 9780262045971.

Review products

Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From signal to symbol: The evolution of language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 272 pp., ISBN: 9780262045971.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2022

Giosuè Baggio
Giosuè Baggio*
Affiliation:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Review
Information
Language and Cognition , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 2022 , pp. 503 - 508
Check for updates
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Baggio, G. (2018). Meaning in the brain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dunbar, R. & Gowlett, J. (2014). Fireside chat: The impact of fire on hominin socioecology. In Dunbar, R., Gamble, C. & Gowlett, J. (eds), Lucy to language: The benchmark papers, 277–96. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Everett, D. (2017). How language began: The story of humanity’s greatest invention. London: Profile Books.Google Scholar
Moreno, M. & Baggio, G. (2015). Role asymmetry and code transmission in signaling games: An experimental and computational investigation. Cognitive Science 39(5), 918–43.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Moro, A. (2014). On the similarity between syntax and actions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 18(3), 109–10.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Nowak, I. & Baggio, G. (2016). The emergence of word order and morphology in compositional languages via multigenerational signaling games. Journal of Language Evolution 1(2), 137–50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vigliocco, G., Vinson, D. P., Druks, J., Barber, H. & Cappa, S. F. (2011). Nouns and verbs in the brain: A review of behavioural, electrophysiological, neuropsychological and imaging studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 35(3), 407–26.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
West-Eberhard, M. J. (2003). Developmental plasticity and evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar