Brian Dessureau

List of John Benjamins publications for which Brian Dessureau plays a role.

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Thompson, N.S., Brian Dessureau and Carolyn Olson 1998 Infant Cries As Evolutionary Melodrama: Extortion or Deception? Evolution of Communication 2:1, pp. 25–43 | Article
Crying is melodramatic in the sense that crying babies seem to respond to a great variety of distressing situations with behaviors, such as gasping, choking, and panting that would be appropriate to a very specific respiratory emergency. In this paper we develop models to explore whether extortion… read more