Primate communication and human language : vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans / edited by Anne Vilain, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry, Jacques Vauclair.

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 discipli...

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Other Authors: Vilain, Anne, Schwartz, Jean-Luc, Abry, Christian, Vauclair, Jacques
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
Series:Advances in interaction studies ; 1.
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Summary: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 multidi.
Physical Description:1 online resource (239 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027287311
9027287317
1283051494
9781283051491
9786613051493
6613051497
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.