Table of contents
Primate communication and human language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans
Part 1. Primate vocal communication: New findings about its complexity, adaptability and control
Living links to human language
What can forest guenons “tell” us about the origin of language?
Do chimpanzees have voluntary control of their facial expressions and vocalizations?
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
Mirror neurons and imitation from a developmental and evolutionary perspective
Lashley’s problem of serial order and the evolution of learnable vocal and manual communication
Part 3. Emergence and development of speech, gestures and language
Naming with gestures
in children with typical development and with Down syndrome
Illuminating language origins from the perspective of contemporary ontogeny in human infants
Emergence of articulatory-acoustic systems from deictic interaction games in a “Vocalize to Localize” framework
2 + 2 Linguistic minimal frames: For a language evolutionary framework
Name index
Subject index
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