Origins of Human Language : Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates / Joël Fagot, Pascal Perrier, Louis-Jean Boë.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fagot, Joël, 1960- editor.

Perrier, Pascal, editor.

Boë, Louis-Jean, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt am Main, Germany : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2017.

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 103091

ISBN:

9783631738078

Publisher Number:

10.3726/b12405

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access