Primate Communication and Human Language

Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans

Editors

Anne Vilain | Université de Grenoble & GIPSA-Lab

Jean-Luc Schwartz | CNRS GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble

Christian Abry | Stendhal University (Grenoble, 1971 – 2009)

Jacques Vauclair | Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence

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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
Published online on 11 March 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/ais.1

Table of Contents

Primate communication and human language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans | pp. 1–10

Part 1. Primate vocal communication: New findings about its complexity, adaptability and control

Living links to human language

Klaus Zuberbühler, Kate Arnold and Katie Slocombe | pp. 13–38

What can forest guenons “tell” us about the origin of language?

Alban Lemasson | pp. 39–70

Do chimpanzees have voluntary control of their facial expressions and vocalizations?

William D. Hopkins, Jared Taglialatela and David A. Leavens | pp. 71–88

Part 2. Neurophysiological, behavioural and ontogenetic data on the evolution of communicative orofacial and manual gestures

From gesture to language: Ontogenetic and phylogenetic perspectives on gestural communication and its cerebral lateralization

Adrien Meguerditchian, Hélène Cochet and Jacques Vauclair | pp. 91–120

Mirror neurons and imitation from a developmental and evolutionary perspective

Pier Francesco Ferrari and Gino Coudé | pp. 121–138

Lashley’s problem of serial order and the evolution of learnable vocal and manual communication

Peter F. MacNeilage | pp. 139–152

Part 3. Emergence and development of speech, gestures and language

Naming with gestures  in children with typical development and with Down syndrome

Silvia Stefanini, Maria Cristina Caselli and Virginia Volterra | pp. 155–172

Illuminating language origins from the perspective of contemporary ontogeny in human infants

Barbara L. Davis | pp. 173–192

Emergence of articulatory-acoustic systems from deictic interaction games in a “Vocalize to Localize” framework

Clément Moulin-Frier, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Julien Diard and Pierre Bessière | pp. 193–220

2 + 2 Linguistic minimal frames: For a language evolutionary framework

Christian Abry | pp. 221–232

Name index | pp. 233–236

Subject index | pp. 237–240

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