| Description |
1 online resource (239 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Advances in interaction studies (AIS) ; 1
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Advances in interaction studies ; 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Primate vocal communication : new findings about its complexity, adaptability and control -- pt. 2. Neurophysiological, behavioural and ontogenetic data on the evolution of communicative orofacial and manual gestures -- pt. 3. Emergence and development of speech, gestures and language. |
| Summary |
After a long period where it has been conceived as iconoclastic and almost forbidden, the question of language origins is now at the centre of a rich debate, confronting acute proposals and original theories. Most importantly, the debate is nourished by a large set of experimental data from disciplines surrounding language. The editors of the present book have gathered researchers from various fields, with the common objective of taking as seriously as possible the search for continuities from non-human primate vocal and gestural communication systems to human speech and language, in a multidi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Oral communication.
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Oral communication. |
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Visual communication.
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Visual communication. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Vilain, Anne.
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Schwartz, Jean-Luc.
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Abry, Christian.
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Vauclair, Jacques.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Primate communication and human language. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011 9789027204547 (DLC) 2010045314 (OCoLC)671573459 |
| ISBN |
9789027287311 (electronic book) |
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9027287317 (electronic book) |
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1283051494 |
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9781283051491 |
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9789027204547 |
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9027204543 |
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