Human communication : origins, mechanisms, and functions /

"This volume contains a collection of contributions from leading scholars who study language and communication from comparative, developmental, and biological perspectives. The goals of the volume are four-fold. They are to (1) sketch the parallels and differences between animal communication s...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology University of Minnesota
Other Authors: Sera, Maria D. (Editor), Koenig, Melissa Ann, 1970- (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, 2021.
Series:Minnesota symposia on child psychology (Series)
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Phylogenetic Origins. A very long look back at language development: Exploring the evolutionary origins of human language
  • Building a communication system in infancy
  • Connecting language acquisition and language evolution: Clues from the emergence of Nicaraguan Sign Language
  • Part 2. Ontogenetic Origins. The role of prenatal experience and basic auditory mechanisms in the development of language
  • Infant Speech Perception: Integration of multimodal data leads to a new hypothesis
  • Sensorimotor mechanisms underlie learning
  • Part 3. Functions. Does vocabulary help structure the mind?
  • Numerical symbols as explanations of human perceptual experience.