[美] 琼·伯科·格利森（Jean Berko Gleason） 世界知名儿童语言专家，心理语言学领域的开创者之一，于1958年创立著名的儿童语言习得实验研究“Wug测试”。美国哈佛大学历史学与文学学士、语言学与心理学博士，波士顿大学心理学与脑科学系荣誉退休教授，美国科学促进协会（AAAS）会员，美国心理学会会员，儿童语言研究国际协会主席。出版多部心理语言学方面的著作，在儿童语言发展、失语症性别差异和亲子互动等领域持续进行研究。 [美] 娜恩·伯恩斯坦·拉特纳（Nan Bernstein Ratner） 美国马里兰大学帕克分校听力与言语科学系教授，美国科学促进协会（AAAS）成员。研究集中于典型和非典型亲子互动以及儿童语言发展方面，重点研究口吃儿童和癫痫患儿。发表多篇专业研究报告，与琼·伯科·格利森博士合著《心理语言学》和《语言的发展》的早期版本。 ...(展开全部)

Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language is a 1996 book by Robin Dunbar, in which Dunbar argues that language evolved from social grooming. He further suggests that a stage of this evolution was the telling of gossip, an argument supported by the observation that language is adapted for storytelling. The book has been criticised on the grounds that since words are so chea...(展开全部)

Arguing that gossiping is vital to a society, and that there is no such thing as "idle" gossip, this book disputes the assumption that language developed in male-male relationships. The author believes that, on the contrary, language evolved among women, and contends that, although men are just as likely to natter as women, women gossip more about other people, thus strengtheni...(展开全部)

This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for genetic linguistics. Written by an internationally renowned linguist, the book discusses the nature and significance of internal and external factors or 'ecologies' that bear on the evolution of a language. The book surveys a wide ...(展开全部)

In 1937, Ronald H. Coase published "The Nature of the Firm," a classic paper that raised fundamental questions about the concept of the firm in economic theory. Coase proposed that the comparative costs of organizing transactions through markets rather than within firms are the primary determinants of the size and scope of firms. Coase won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics for ...(展开全部)

Human language is a weird communication system: it has more in common with birdsong than the calls of other primates. In this clear and non-technical overview, Jean Aitchison explores why it evolved and how it developed. She likens the search to a vast prehistoric jigsaw puzzle, in which numerous fragments of evidence must be assembled, some external to language, such as evolut...(展开全部)

Human language is a weird communication system: it has more in common with birdsong than with the calls of other primates. In this wide-ranging and accessible overview, first published in 2000, Jean Aitchison explores the origins of human language and how it has evolved. She likens the search to a vast pre-historic jigsaw puzzle, in which numerous fragments of evidence must be ...(展开全部)

Are language and consciousness co-evolving? Can psychedelic experience cast light on this topic? In the Western world, we stand at the dawn of the psychedelic age with advances in neuroscience; a proliferation of new psychoactive substances, both legal and illegal; the anthropology of ayahuasca use; and new discoveries in ethnobotany. From scientific papers to the individual tr...(展开全部)