Author : Louis-Jean Boë
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783631738078
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (38 download)
Book Synopsis Origins of Human Language: Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates by : Louis-Jean Boë
Download or read book Origins of Human Language: Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates written by Louis-Jean Boë and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a detailed picture of the continuities and ruptures between communication in primates and language in humans. It explores a diversity of perspectives on the origins of language, including a fine description of vocal communication in animals, mainly in monkeys and apes, but also in birds, the study of vocal tract anatomy and cortical control of the vocal productions in monkeys and apes, the description of combinatory structures and their social and communicative value, and the exploration of the cognitive environment in which language may have emerged from nonhuman primate vocal or gestural communication.