Primate Communication And Human Language

Author : Anne Vilain
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027287317
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Communication and Human Language written by Anne Vilain and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a long period where it has been conceived as iconoclastic and almost forbidden, the question of language origins is now at the centre of a rich debate, confronting acute proposals and original theories. Most importantly, the debate is nourished by a large set of experimental data from disciplines surrounding language. The editors of the present book have gathered researchers from various fields, with the common objective of taking as seriously as possible the search for continuities from non-human primate vocal and gestural communication systems to human speech and language, in a multidisciplinary perspective combining ethology, neuroscience, developmental psychology and linguistics, as well as computer science and robotics. New data and theoretical elaborations on the emergence of referential communication and language are debated here by some of the most creative scientists in the world.

Author : Anne Vilain
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027204543
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Communication and Human Language written by Anne Vilain and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a long period where it has been conceived as iconoclastic and almost forbidden, the question of language origins is now at the centre of a rich debate, confronting acute proposals and original theories. Most importantly, the debate is nourished by a large set of experimental data from disciplines surrounding language. The editors of the present book have gathered researchers from various fields, with the common objective of taking as seriously as possible the search for "continuities" from non-human primate vocal and gestural communication systems to human speech and language, in a multidisciplinary perspective combining ethology, neuroscience, developmental psychology and linguistics, as well as computer science and robotics. New data and theoretical elaborations on the emergence of referential communication and language are debated here by some of the most creative scientists in the world.

Author : Louis-Jean Boë
Publisher : Speech Production and Perception
ISBN 13 : 9783631737262
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of Human Language written by Louis-Jean Boë and published by Speech Production and Perception. This book was released on 2017 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.

Author : Katja Liebal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521195047
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Communication written by Katja Liebal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multimodal approach to primate communication with focus on its cognitive foundations and how this relates to theories of language evolution.

Author : Katja Liebal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027222404
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates written by Katja Liebal and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this volume is to bring together the research in gestural communication in both nonhuman and human primates and to explore the potential of a comparative approach and its contribution to the question of an evolutionary scenario in which gestures play a signuificant role.

Author : Louis-Jean Boë
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783631738078
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Dietmar Todt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642737692
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Vocal Communication written by Dietmar Todt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication is both a prerequisite and manifestation of social organization and in this sense several chapters of this volume are aimed to investigate the way vocal communication serves its ultimate function of maintaining social organization. Although manifold parallels exist to vocal communication in birds, additional mechanisms of vocalization are found in primates. Treating the various psychological, ecological, behavioral, and neurobiological aspects of vocalization this book provides an interdisciplinary approach for the understanding of biocommunication in primates including humans. Conceptual as well as methodological considerations are given in a balanced way. The addition of a comprehensive glossary gives an overview also to nonspecialists in this field.

Author : R. L. Garner
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Speech of Monkeys written by R. L. Garner and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Speech of Monkeys" is an aftermath of the experiment conducted by R.L. Garner. The author went to Africa to study and record the voices of gorillas and chimpanzees. The book also mentioned the particular characteristics which mark the sound of monkeys as speech and distinguish them from mere automatic sounds. The author in this book, aims to let the world know with what results from his labours have been rewarded, and with the hope that it may be the means of inducing others to pursue investigations.

Author : Barbara J. King
Publisher : School for Advanced Research Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Language written by Barbara J. King and published by School for Advanced Research Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : J. de Luce
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461254965
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language in Primates written by J. de Luce and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology was originally planned in connection with a symposium "Language in Primates: Implications for Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, and Philosophy," at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Publication of the book would not have been possible without the support given to the Symposium by many individuals and groups. The Editors thank everyone involved for their kind and generous assistance. Specifi cally, we thank the invited speakers at the Symposium, Thomas A. Sebeok, H. Lyn Miles, Roger S. Fouts, and Thomas Simon. The chapters in this book by Miles, Fouts, and Simon are revised versions of their lectures at the Symposium. We thank Edward Simmel for his encouragement, his patience with our efforts, and his help in planning and directing the Symposium. For their financial assistance, we thank the co-sponsors of the Symposium: the Sigma Chi Foundation/William P. Huffman Scholar-in Residence Program at Miami University, as well as the Departments of Classics, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology and Anthropology at Miami. We thank Barbara Johnson, Polly J. Harris and Brenda Shaw for their secretarial and editorial help, and Shirley Gallimore for her patience, care, good humor, and hard work in typing the manuscript. Finally, we thank the contributors to this volume.