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Developments in Primate Gesture ResearchEdited by Simone Pika and Katja Liebal
[Gesture Studies 6] 2012
► pp. v–viii
Edited by Simone Pika and Katja Liebal
[Gesture Studies 6] 2012
► pp. v–viii
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
About the contributors
Introduction: Developments in primate gesture research
Article
Facial-vocal displays, gestures and language
Research Studies
Does ontogenetic ritualization explain early communicative gestures in human infants?
Non-human primates
A mother gorilla’s variable use of touch to guide her infant: Insights into iconicity and the relationship between gesture and action
Spontaneous use of gesture sequences in orangutans: A case for strategy?
Handedness for manual gestures in great apes: A meta-analysis
Mandrill visual gestures: A round-the-world study of the largest of all monkeys
Gesture use in consortship: Wild chimpanzees’ use of gesture for an ‘evolutionarily urgent’ purpose
New trends and debates
A call for conformity: Gesture studies in human and non-human primates
Cognitivism, adaptationism and pointing
Pointing: Contexts and instrumentality
Requesting behaviours within episodes of active sharing: A new look on chimpanzee signalling
Article
Hands and faces: Linking human language and non-human primate communication
Where next?
Index
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