Requesting in social interaction / edited by Paul Drew, Loughborough University ; Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, University of Helsinki.

This paper presents two pilot studies of sharing situations in orangutans and human infants. We report on the communicative behaviors that elicit food transfers, the contingencies associated with gesture selection and the (relative) success in obtaining food. We focus on the sequential unfolding of...

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Other Authors: Drew, Paul (Editor), Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Series:Studies in language and social interaction ; v. 26.
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