Origins of Language: What Nonhuman Primates Can Tell Us by Barbara J. King
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Origins of Language
Origins of Language
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Is human language unique in the natural world, or does it have meaningful precursors in animal communication? In this book, primatologists and palaeoanthropologists examine the non-human primate data and use their research to present new theories of language origin and evolution.
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...strongly recommended to anyone with an interest in primate behaviour and language. * . *
Table of Contents
Viewed from up close - monkeys, apes and theories of language origins, Barbara J. King; motivation, conventionalization and arbitrariness in the origin of language, Robbins Burling; the game of the name - continuity and discontinuity in language origins, Iain Davidson; language evolution and expansions of multiple neurological processsing areas, Kathleen Gibson; primate social organization, vocabulary size and communication dynamics - a comparative study of Macaques, Dario Maestripieri; children's transition to language - a human model for development of the vocal repertoire in the other primate species?; ape language -between a rock and a hard place, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh; an empiricist view of language evolution and development, Charles T. Snowden; the invention and ritualization of language, Sherman Wilcox.
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GOR013433827
9780852559048
0852559046
Origins of Language: What Nonhuman Primates Can Tell Us by Barbara J. King
Used - Very Good
Paperback
James Currey
20000316
450
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