Week 9: Language and Logic

• Deacon, Terrence W. (1997), Symbols aren't simple (Chapter three) in Symbolic Species: The co-evolution of language and the brain. W.W. Norton and Company, New York.
• Hauser Marc D. (2000), Gossip on the Ark. In M.D. Hauser Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think. Henry Holt and Company, New York.
• Hurford, J. (2003) The Language Mosaic and its Evolution. In M.H. Christiansen and S. Kirby (Eds.) Language Evolution: The States of the Art, Oxford University Press.
• Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue and William M. Fields, and Jared P. Taglialatela (2001), Language, Speech, Tools and Writing: A Cultural Imperative. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 8, No. 5-7, 273-292.
• Watanabe, Shigeru and Ludwig Huber (2006), Animal logics: Decisions in the absence of human language. Animal Cognition, 9 (4): 235-245.