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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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons,
2021.
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| 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.