The origins of language : what nonhuman primates can tell us /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Fe, N.M. :
School of American Research Press,
[1999]
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| Series: | School of American Research advanced seminar series.
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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.