The Origins of Language Unraveling Evolutionary Forces /
Developments in cognitive science indicate that human and nonhuman primates share a range of behavioral and physiological characteristics that speak to the issue of language origins. This volume has three major themes, woven throughout the chapters. First, it is argued that scientists in animal beha...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Tokyo :
Springer Japan,
2008.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- The Gestural Theory of and the Vocal Theory of Language Origins Are Not Incompatible with One Another
- The Gestural Origins of Language
- World-View of Protolanguage Speakers as Inferred from Semantics of Sound Symbolic Words: A Case of Japanese Mimetics
- Japanese Mothers’ Use of Specialized Vocabulary in Infant-Directed Speech: Infant-Directed Vocabulary in Japanese
- Short-Term Acoustic Modifications During Dynamic Vocal Interactions in Nonhuman Primates— Implications for Origins of Motherese
- Vocal Learning in Nonhuman Primates: Importance of Vocal Contexts
- The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Bimodal Primate Vocal Communication
- Understanding the Dynamics of Primate Vocalization and Its Implications for the Evolution of Human Speech
- Implication of the Human Musical Faculty for Evolution of Language.
