Origin-of-Language Stories

Creation stories

--Biblical (Bailey, Camp)

--with elements of Prometheus and Babel (Butler)

--with talented percentage (Hammond)

--with concept of language as postlapsarian (Saenz)

--fabulous via Native American (Duvall)

--via the Brady Bunch (Hansen)

Evolution stories

--with Babel elements (Payne)

--onomatopoeia (Chargois)

--with Biblical connections (Cuevas)

--gesture-to-word (Holden, Tatum, Powers, Prawer)

--related to biological evolution (Sorem)

--with second-level mimesis (Bollom)

--with third-level abstraction (Nelson)

--saltation (Estes)

--with visually mediated representation (Boyd)

--as fantasy (Bishop)

--as social product (Stoker: intergroup trade)

--with Babel & gossip elements (Truesdale)

--with visually mediated representation (Williams)

--as product of cognitive mapping (Jackson)

--fitting over gestural convention (Dill, Garland)

--as marking in absence of sensory skill (Wilson)