The origins of language : what nonhuman primates can tell us /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: King, Barbara J., 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Fe, N.M. : School of American Research Press, [1999]
Series:School of American Research advanced seminar series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: primatological perspectives on language / Barbara J. King
  • Viewed from up close: monkeys, apes, and language-origins theories / Barbara J. King
  • Primate social organization, gestural repertoire size, and communication dynamics: a comparative study of macaques / Dario Maestripieri
  • An empiricist view of language evolution and development / Charles T. Snowdon
  • Ape language: between a rock and a hard place / Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
  • Language evolution and expansions of multiple neurological processing areas / Kathleen R. Gibson, Stephen Jessee
  • The game of the name: continuity and discontinuity in language origins / Iain Davidson
  • Children's transition to language: a human model for development of the vocal repertoire in extant and ancestral primate species? / Lorraine McCune
  • Motivation, conventionalization, and arbitrariness in the origin of language / Robbins Burling
  • The invention and ritualization of language / Sherman Wilcox.