Primate Communication and Human Language
Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans
Published on 30. March 2011
Book
Hardback
239 pages
978-90-272-0454-7 (ISBN)
Description
After a long period where it has been conceived as iconoclastic and almost forbidden, the question of language origins is now at the centre of a rich debate, confronting acute proposals and original theories. Most importantly, the debate is nourished by a large set of experimental data from disciplines surrounding language. The editors of the present book have gathered researchers from various fields, with the common objective of taking as seriously as possible the search for continuities from non-human primate vocal and gestural communication systems to human speech and language, in a multidisciplinary perspective combining ethology, neuroscience, developmental psychology and linguistics, as well as computer science and robotics. New data and theoretical elaborations on the emergence of referential communication and language are debated here by some of the most creative scientists in the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0454-7 (9789027204547)
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Anne Vilain | Jean-Luc Schwartz | Christian Abry
Primate Communication and Human Language
Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans
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03/2011
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
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1. Primate communication and human language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans; 2. Part 1. Primate vocal communication: New findings about its complexity, adaptability and control; 3. Living links to human language (by Zuberbuhler, Klaus); 4. What can forest guenons "tell" us about the origin of language? (by Lemasson, Alban); 5. Do chimpanzees have voluntary control of their facial expressions and vocalizations? (by Hopkins, William D.); 6. Part 2. Neurophysiological, behavioural and ontogenetic data on the evolution of communicative orofacial and manual gestures; 7. From gesture to language: Ontogenetic and phylogenetic perspectives on gestural communication and its cerebral lateralization (by Meguerditchian, Adrien); 8. Mirror neurons and imitation from a developmental and evolutionary perspective (by Ferrari, Pier Francesco); 9. Lashley's problem of serial order and the evolution of learnable vocal and manual communication (by MacNeilage, Peter F.); 10. Part 3. Emergence and development of speech, gestures and language; 11. Naming with gestures in children with typical development and with Down syndrome (by Stefanini, Silvia); 12. Illuminating language origins from the perspective of contemporary ontogeny in human infants (by Davis, Barbara L.); 13. Emergence of articulatory-acoustic systems from deictic interaction games in a "Vocalize to Localize" framework (by Moulin-Frier, Clement); 14. 2 + 2 Linguistic minimal frames: For a language evolutionary framework (by Abry, Christian); 15. Name index; 16. Subject index