Primate communication and human language : vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans

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.
Subjects:
Oral communication.
Visual communication.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Communication Studies.
Oral communication
Visual communication
Visuell kommunikation.
Verbal kommunikation > psykologiska aspekter.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Primate vocal communication : new findings about its complexity, adaptability and control
  • pt. 2. Neurophysiological, behavioural and ontogenetic data on the evolution of communicative orofacial and manual gestures
  • pt. 3. Emergence and development of speech, gestures and language.

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