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1 online resource (xiv, 284 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Benjamins current topics ; v. 10
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Benjamins current topics ; v. 10.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller, and Simone Pika -- The syntactic motor system / Alice C. Roy and Michael A. Arbib -- The gestural communication of apes / Simone Pika [and others] -- Gestural communication in three species of macaques (Macaca mulatta, M. nemestrina, M. arctoides): use of signals in relation to dominance and social context / Dario Maestripieri -- Multimodal concomitants of manual gesture by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): influence of food size and distance / David Leavens and William Hopkins -- Requesting gestures in captive monkeys and apes: conditioned responses or referential behaviours? / Juan Carlos Gómez -- Cross-fostered chimpanzees modulate signs of American Sign Language / Valerie J. Chalcraft and R. Allen Gardner -- Human twelve-month-olds point cooperatively to share interest with and helpfully provide information for a communicative partner / Ulf Liszkowski -- From action to language through gesture: a longitudinal perspective / Olga Capirici [and others] -- The link (and differences) between deixis and symbols in children's early gestural-vocal system / Elena Pizzuto and Micaela Capobianco -- A cross-cultural comparison of communicative gestures in human infants during the transition to language / Joanna Blake [and others] -- How does linguistic framing of events co-speech gestures? Insights from crosslinguistic variations and similarities / Asli Özyürek [and others] -- The two faces of gesture: language and thought / Susan Goldin-Meadow -- Gestures in human and nonhuman primates: why we need a comparative view / Cornelia Müller. |
| Summary |
Research into gestures represents a multifaceted field comprising a wide range of disciplines and research topics, varying methods and approaches, and even different species such as humans, apes and monkeys. The aim of this volume (originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture 5:1/2 (2005)) is to bring together the research in gestural communication in both nonhuman and human primates and to explore the potential of a comparative approach and its contribution to the question of an evolutionary scenario in which gestures play a significant role. The topics covered include the spontaneous n. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Gesture.
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Gesture. |
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Animal communication.
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Animal communication. |
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Primates.
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Primates. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Liebal, Katja.
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Müller, Cornelia, 1960-
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Pika, Simone.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gestural communication in nonhuman and human primates. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007 (DLC) 2007020958 |
| ISBN |
9789027291868 (electronic book) |
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9027291861 (electronic book) |
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9027222401 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9789027222404 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9789027222404 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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