Jared Taglialatela
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jared Taglialatela plays a role.
Articles
2011 Do chimpanzees have voluntary control of their facial expressions and vocalizations? Primate Communication and Human Language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans, Vilain, Anne, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry and Jacques Vauclair (eds.), pp. 71–88 | Article
It has been argued that only humans have volitional control of their vocalizations and that this ability allowed for the evolution of speech. Here we argue that recent studies in chimpanzees suggest that they do, in fact have some degree of voluntary control of both their vocalizations as well as… read more
2002 Confrontation and support in bonobo-human discourse Functions of Language 9:1, pp. 1–38 | Article
As part of a program to explore the communicative abilities of bonobo apes within the human-ape culture at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University, we made two complementary analyses of a conversation between Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Kanzi. We made both a conversation analysis and… read more