| Description |
1 online resource (x, 311 pages) : illustrations |
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Benjamins current topics, 1874-0081 ; v. 13 |
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Benjamins current topics ; v. 13.
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| 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 [and others] -- 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 construction-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 |
| Summary |
Vocalize-to-Localize? Meerkats do it for specific predators ... And babies point with their index finger toward targets of interest at about nine months, well before using language-specific that-demonstratives. With what-interrogatives they are universal and, as relativizers and complementizers, play an important role in grammar construction. Some alarm calls in nonhumans display more than mere localization: semantics and even syntax. Instead of telling another monomodal story about language origin, in this volume advocates of representational gestures, semantically transparent, but with a proble |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Oral communication.
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Visual communication.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Speech.
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Oral communication
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Visual communication
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Abry, Christian.
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Vilain, Anne.
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Schwartz, Jean-Luc.
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| LC no. |
2009003060 |
| ISBN |
9789027289513 |
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9027289514 |
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9027222436 |
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9789027222435 |
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1282169890 |
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9781282169890 |
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9786612169892 |
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6612169893 |
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