Origins of Human Language Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates

• Autres auteurs: Boë, Louis-Jean (Éditeur intellectuel), Fagot, Joël (Éditeur intellectuel), Perrier, Pascal (Éditeur intellectuel), Schwartz, Jean-Luc (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2017
• Collection: Speech Production and Perception
• Sujets: Phonetics, phonology; Languages; Phonetics; phonology; Primate communication; human language; origins of language; animal communication
• Accès en ligne: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Résumé

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.

ISBN

b12405
9783631738078;9783631738085

Accès

Open Access