| Description |
1 online resource (x, 356 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Vienna series in theoretical biology
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Vienna series in theoretical biology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Signal and functional flexibility in the emergence of communication systems: the editors' introduction / D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel -- Evolutionary forces favoring communicative flexibility / Ulrike Griebel and D. Kimbrough Oller -- Vocal learning in mammals with special emphasis on pinnipeds / Ronald J. Schusterman -- Contextually flexible communication in nonhuman primates / Charles T. Snowdon -- Constraints in primate vocal production / Kurt Hammerschmidt and Julia Fischer -- Contextual sensitivity and bird song: a basis for social life / Martine Hausberger [and others] -- Contextual flexibility in infant vocal development and the earliest steps in the evolution of language / D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel -- Scaffolds for babbling innateness and learning in the emergence of contex[t]ually flexible vocal production in human infants / Michael J. Owren and Michael H. Goldstein -- Cognitive precursors to language / Brian MacWhinney -- Language and niche construction / Kim Sterelny-- How apes use gestures: the issue of flexibility / Josep Call -- Role of play in the evolution and ontogeny of contextually flexible communication / Stan Kuczaj and Radhika Makecha -- Detection and estimation of complexity and contextual flexibility in nonhuman animal communication / Brenda McCowan [and others] -- Evolution of flexibility in bird song / Robert F. Lachlan -- Development and evolution of speech sound categories principles and models / Gert Westermann. |
| Summary |
Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communication.
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Communication. |
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Animal communication.
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Animal communication. |
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Language and languages -- Origin.
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Language and languages -- Origin. |
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Human evolution.
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Human evolution. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Oller, D. Kimbrough.
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Griebel, Ulrike.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Evolution of communicative flexibility. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008 9780262151214 0262151219 (DLC) 2008005750 (OCoLC)192045666 |
| ISBN |
9780262281027 (electronic book) |
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0262281023 (electronic book) |
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9781435677210 (electronic book) |
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1435677218 (electronic book) |
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9780262151214 |
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0262151219 |
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