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LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION am imnfterdisciplinary journal VOLUME 11 1991 © Pergamon Press OXFORD - NEW YORK - SEOUL - TOKYO LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION an interdisciplinary journal EDITORS Roy Harris, University of Oxford, England. Talbot J. Taylor, Department of English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23185, U.S.A. EDITORIAL BOARD Ch.-J. N. Bailey H. Giles F. J. Newmeyer Hawaii, USA University of California, University of Washington, R. P. Botha Santa Barbara, USA Seattle, USA University of Stellenbosch, H. R. Harré K. L. Pike South Africa University of Oxford, UK Summer Institute of J. S. Bruner P. Hopper Linguistics, Dallas, USA New School for Social Research, Carnegie-Mellon University, R. Rommetveit New York City, USA Pittsburgh, USA University of Oslo, M. A. E. Dummett J. E. Joseph Norway University of Oxford, UK University of Maryland, J. Scancarelli A. J. Fourcin College Park, USA College of William and Mary, University College, J. C. 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Specific written permission must be obtained from the publisher for such copying. ©™The text paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. The Item-Fee Code for this publication is: 0271-5309/91 $3.00 + .O0. VOLUME CONTENTS Volume 11 Number 1/2 PEER COMMENTARY R. Harris and T. J. Taylor 1 A second decade for Language & Communication F. J. Newmeyer 3 Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language Commentary J. T. Andresen On genetic encoding and communication A . L. Becker Language and languaging D. Bickerton Language origins and evolutionary plausibility R. S. Fouts Dirty bathwater, innateness neonates and the dating game P . J. Hopper Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language D. Hymes Is poetics original and functional? . Lakoff Cognitive versus generative linguistics: how commitments influence results . Lieberman Preadaptation, natural selection and function . Lightfoot Subjacency and sex . Love Generativism, genes and grammar . Mihlhausler Comments on Newmeyer’s ‘Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language’ . F. Prince On ‘Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language’ S . Romaine Last tango in Paris J . Scancarelli An unwarranted dismissal of functional linguistics S. G. Shanker Selective forces at work S . A. Thompson On addressing functional explanation in linguistics Author’s Response F. J. Newmeyer O, what a tangoed web they weave... References Calendar Volume 11 Number 3 M. Sakata The acquisition of Japanese ‘gender’ particles J. D. May Declaratives as suggestions S. Auroux and D. Kouloughli Why is there no ‘true’ philosophy of linguistics? R. McDonough Plato’s anti-mechanistic account of communication F. Poyatos Paralinguistic qualifiers: our many voices W. Buckland The structural linguistic foundation of film semiology E. Mullet and |. Rivet Comprehension of verbal probability expressions in children and adolescents D. D. Clarke and B. Nerlich Word-waves: a computational model of lexical semantic change Calendar Volume 11 Number 4 1991 L. Leinonen, |. Linnankoski, Vocal communication between species: man and macaque M.-L. Laakso and R. Aulanko Y. Maschler The language games bilinguals play: language alternation at language game boundaries Cc . J. Walker and B. Blaine The virulence of dread rumors: a field experiment A. Ulasevich, B. Leaton, American and Japanese subjects’ reports of pause . Kramer, A. E. Hiecke and occurrences and duration . C. O'Connell M. Yaeger-Dror Linguistic evidence for social psychological attitudes: hyperaccommodation or (r) by singers from a Mizrahi background Perspectives on literal meaning Volume Contents and Author Index for Volume 11, 1991