Primate Communication and Human Language

Name: Primate Communication and Human Language | Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans
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Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans

Anne Vilain Jean-Luc Schwartz Christian Abry Jacques Vauclair(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 30. März 2011

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Primate Communication and Human Language
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Primate communication and human language
Introduction
Following the route, chapter by chapter
Concluding remarks
References
Part 1. Primate vocal communication: New findings about its complexity, adaptability and control
Living links to human language
The cognitive continuum
The phonetics of primate calls
The origins of phonology
The origins of meaning
a. Referential signals
b. Audience effects
c. Comprehension
d. Eavesdropping
The origins of morphosyntax
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
What can forest guenons "tell" us about the origin of language?
Nonhuman primates as vocal communicants: A "phylogenetic gap"?
Bridging the gap? screening "proto-language" properties in nonhuman primates: recent evidence from forest guenons
Vocal use
Auditory perception and message comprehension
Vocal production
Investigation perspectives for new emerging theories
References
Do chimpanzees have voluntary control of their facial expressions and vocalizations?
Defining sounds versus vocalizations
Audience and visual attention effects on sound and vocal production
What is the function of these sounds and vocalizations?
Neuropsychological and neurophysiological evidence
Discussion
Acknowledgement
References
Part 2. Neurophysiological, behavioural and ontogenetic data on the evolution of communicative orofacial and manual gestures
From gesture to language
Introduction
I. Gestural communication in human children
II. Asymmetries of vocal and gestural communicative behaviours in humans
III. Properties of gestural communication in nonhuman primates
1. Flexibility
2. Learning
3. Intentionality
4. Pointing and referential properties
IV. Gestural communication, lateralization and the brain
1. Handedness in nonhuman primates
1. Manual asymmetries for gestures
2. Neural correlates of gestural communication
V. Discussion
1. Pointing, a step for the emergence of language?
2. Comparison of features between vocal and gestural communication in nonhuman primates
3. A bimodal system rather a gestural system?
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Mirror neurons and imitation from a developmental and evolutionary perspective
Mirror neurons in the monkey premotor and parietal cortices
Action understanding as a basic function of mirror neurons
The mirror neuron system in humans
Mirror neurons and imitation
Behavioral studies in non-human primates
Imitation from a developmental perspective - behavioral and neurophysiological studies
Conclusions
References
Acknowledgements
Lashley's problem of serial order and the evolution of learnable vocal and manual communication
The serial organization of speech: Evidence from speech errors
Evolution of the frame/content mode of organization
Serial organization of sign language: Evidence from sign errors
The serial organization of birdsong
Summary
References
Part 3. Emergence and development of speech, gestures and language
Naming with gestures in children with typical development and with Down syndrome
Introduction
Gesture and words in typically developing children
Data collection and analysis
The naming task with typically developing children
Gesture and words in children with down syndrome
The naming task with children with down syndrome
Concluding remarks
Acknowledgments
References
Illuminating language origins from the perspective of contemporary ontogeny in human infants
Theoretical perspectives
Mechanisms underlying ontogenetic and phylogenetic processes
The frame-content theory
Within syllable patterns of cv co-occurrence
Across syllable patterns
General mechanisms: Self organization
General mechanisms: Learning
Implications for considering phylogeny
References
Emergence of articulatory-acoustic systems from deictic interaction games in a "Vocalize to Localize" framework
1. Introduction
2. Deriving morphogenesis theories from origins theories
2.1 Morphogenesis theories
2.2 Origins theories: Vocalize to Localize
2.3 An integrated framework
3. Computational models of language emergence in a society of interacting agents
4. Modelling
4.1 General principles
4.2 Bayesian modelling
5. Results
5.1 Technical details
5.2 Simulations
6. Conclusions and perspectives
7. References
2 + 2 Linguistic minimal frames
Time to crack the crust!
Fieldwork soft minimalism
Minimalist hard thesis gone mad
Language = Babbling + Pointing, then Predicating + Telling
Pointing: Its phonology, lexicon-grabbing, morphology and syntax
Compounding words/signs as a key to morphologize and phonologize language
References
Name index
Subject index

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