Primate Communication and Human Language
Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans
Editors
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.
[Advances in Interaction Studies, 1] 2011. vi, 239 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Primate communication and human language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans | pp. 1–10
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Part 1. Primate vocal communication: New findings about its complexity, adaptability and control
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Living links to human languageKlaus Zuberbühler, Kate Arnold and Katie Slocombe | pp. 13–38
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What can forest guenons “tell” us about the origin of language?Alban Lemasson | pp. 39–70
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Do chimpanzees have voluntary control of their facial expressions and vocalizations?William D. Hopkins, Jared Taglialatela and David A. Leavens | pp. 71–88
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Part 2. Neurophysiological, behavioural and ontogenetic data on the evolution of communicative orofacial and manual gestures
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From gesture to language: Ontogenetic and phylogenetic perspectives on gestural communication and its cerebral lateralizationAdrien Meguerditchian, Hélène Cochet and Jacques Vauclair | pp. 91–120
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Mirror neurons and imitation from a developmental and evolutionary perspectivePier Francesco Ferrari and Gino Coudé | pp. 121–138
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Lashley’s problem of serial order and the evolution of learnable vocal and manual communicationPeter F. MacNeilage | pp. 139–152
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Part 3. Emergence and development of speech, gestures and language
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Naming with gestures in children with typical development and with Down syndromeSilvia Stefanini, Maria Cristina Caselli and Virginia Volterra | pp. 155–172
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Illuminating language origins from the perspective of contemporary ontogeny in human infantsBarbara L. Davis | pp. 173–192
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Emergence of articulatory-acoustic systems from deictic interaction games in a “Vocalize to Localize” frameworkClément Moulin-Frier, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Julien Diard and Pierre Bessière | pp. 193–220
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2 + 2 Linguistic minimal frames: For a language evolutionary frameworkChristian Abry | pp. 221–232
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Name index | pp. 233–236
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Subject index | pp. 237–240
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Subjects & Metadata
Interaction Studies
Linguistics
BIC Subject: PSAJ – Evolution
BISAC Subject: LAN000000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General