The genesis of language : a different judgement of evidence ; [selected papers from the Symposium on the Origins of Language held during Phase II of the XIth International Congress of Anthroplogical and Ethnological Sciences, August 20-23, 1983, Vancouver

As Symposium Organizer and Editor, my debts of gratitude are many: to the Xlth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, where these papers were presented, for their exemplary organization and gracious hospitality; to Henrietta Cedergren, Linguistics Director, and Bjorn Simonsen, Executive Secretary, for their outstanding administrative endeavors on our behalf; to my fellow participants, for having so generously contributed to the Symposium's success by their friendship and scholarly cooperation; to Ofer Bar-Yosef (Hebrew University) for critically reading the Preface; to Florian Coulmas, Scientific Editor (Mouton), for his unflagging patience and professional guidance regarding this publication; and above all to my husband, Morris Landsberg, for his staunch support, appreciated more than words can say. Grateful acknowledgement is made to Horst D. Steklis (Rutgers University) and to the Academic Press, Inc. (London), Ltd., for their permission to reprint the article entitled: "Primate communication, comparative neurology, and the origin of language re-examined. Part I. Neurobiological advances Evolutionary neurobiology and the origin of language as a cognitive adaptation Language development and biological programming: behavioral and electrophysiological indices Primate communication, comparative neurology, and the origin of language reexamined Part II. Perceptual bases Grasping and the gesture theory of language origins Ways to accelerate progress in glottogonic research Implication and the evolution of language Perceptual bases for the evolution of speech Part III. Fossil evidence Neoteny and language evolution Language evolution and paedomorphosis Language evolution and paedomorphosis. A reply to Jan Wind Brain size and the evolution of language Laryngeal descent in 40.000 year old fossils Part IV. Linguistic evidence Live speech and preverbal communication On linguistic territoriality, iconicity and language evolution Vestiges of primeval phonology in certain ancient languages The synchronous development and kinesis: Further evidence Behavioral flexibility and the evolution of language Index

This work includes international secondary literature on anti-Semitism published throughout the world, from the earliest times to the present. It lists books, dissertations, and articles from periodicals and collections from a diverse range of disciplines. Written accounts are included among the recorded titles, as are manifestations of anti-Semitism in the visual arts (e.g. painting, caricatures or film), action taken against Jews and Judaism by discriminating judiciaries, pogroms, massacres and the systematic extermination during the Nazi period. The bibliography also covers works dealing with philo-Semitism or Jewish reactions to anti-Semitism and Jewish self-hate. An informative abstract in English is provided for each entry, and Hebrew titles are provided with English translations.