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Origins of Human Language Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates

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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...

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Other Authors: Boë, Louis-Jean (Editor), Fagot, Joël (Editor), Perrier, Pascal (Editor), Schwartz, Jean-Luc (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2017
Series:Speech Production and Perception
Subjects:
Phonetics, phonology
Languages
Phonetics
phonology
Primate communication
human language
origins of language
animal communication
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Summary: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
Access:Open Access

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