Vocalize to localize / edited by Christian Abry, Anne Vilain, Jean-Luc Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abry, Christian.

Vilain, Anne.

Schwartz, Jean-Luc.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; v. 13.

Benjamins current topics, 1874-0081 ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oral communication.

Visual communication.

Physical Description:

x, 311 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contributions by 23 specialists in the behaviour and brain of humans, including comperative studies in child development and nonhuman primates, in aphasiology and robotics.

Contents:

Introduction: vocalize to localize? a call for better crosstalk between auditory and visual communication systems researchers / Christian Abry, Anne Vilain, and Jean-Luc Schwartz

Vocalize to localize: a test on functionally referential alarm calls / Marta B. Manser and Lindsay B. Fletcher

Mirror neurons, gestures, and language evolution / Leonardo Fogassi and Pier Francesco Ferrari

Lateralization of communicative signals in nonhuman primates and the hypothesis of the gestural origin of language / Jacques Vauclair

Manual deixis in apes and humans / David A. Leavens

Neandertal vocal tract : which potential for vowel acoustics? / Louis-Jean Boë ... [et al.]

Interweaving protosign and protospeech: further developments beyond the mirror / Michael A. Arbib

The frame/content theory of evolution of speech: a comparison with a gestural-origins alternative / Peter F. MacNeilage and Barbara L. Davis

Intentional communication and the anterior cingulate cortex / Oana Benga

Gestural-vocal deixis and representational skills in early language development / Elena Pizzuto, Micaela Capobianco, and Antonella Devescovi

Building a talking baby robot: a contribution to the study of speech acquisition and evolution / Jihène Serkhane, Jean-Luc Schwartz, and Pierre Bessière

Aspects of descriptive, referential, and information structure in phrasal semantics: a contruction-based model / Peter F. Dominey

First in, last out? the evolution of aphasic lexical speech automatisms to agrammatism and the evolution of human communication / Chris Code.

Notes:

Previously published in Interaction studies 5:3 (2004) & 6:2 (2005).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612169892

9781282169890

1282169890

9789027289513

9027289514

OCLC:

649900774