Primate Communication And Human Language
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Author | : Anne Vilain |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2011-03-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9027287317 |
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 multidisciplinary perspective combining ethology, neuroscience, developmental psychology and linguistics, as well as computer science and robotics. New data and theoretical elaborations on the emergence of referential communication and language are debated here by some of the most creative scientists in the world.
Author | : Louis-Jean Boë |
Publisher | : Speech Production and Perception |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Animal communication |
ISBN | : 9783631737262 |
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.
Author | : Anne Vilain |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027204543 |
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 multidisciplinary perspective combining ethology, neuroscience, developmental psychology and linguistics, as well as computer science and robotics. New data and theoretical elaborations on the emergence of referential communication and language are debated here by some of the most creative scientists in the world.
Author | : Katja Liebal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521195047 |
Multimodal approach to primate communication with focus on its cognitive foundations and how this relates to theories of language evolution.
Author | : Katja Liebal |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2007-11-21 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9027291861 |
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 natural gesture use in social groups of apes and monkeys, but also during interactions with humans, gestures of preverbal children and their interaction with language, speech-accompanying gestures in humans as well as the use of sign-language in human and nonhuman great apes. It addresses researchers with a background in Psychology, Primatology, Linguistics, and Anthropology, but it might also function as an introduction and a documentation state of the art for a wider less specialised audience which is fascinated by the role gestures might have played in the evolution of human language.
Author | : Laura Jane Beckman Lancaster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Animal communication |
ISBN | : |
Author | : R. L. Garner |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2022-08-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"The Speech of Monkeys" is an aftermath of the experiment conducted by R.L. Garner. The author went to Africa to study and record the voices of gorillas and chimpanzees. The book also mentioned the particular characteristics which mark the sound of monkeys as speech and distinguish them from mere automatic sounds. The author in this book, aims to let the world know with what results from his labours have been rewarded, and with the hope that it may be the means of inducing others to pursue investigations.
Author | : J. de Luce |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1461254965 |
This anthology was originally planned in connection with a symposium "Language in Primates: Implications for Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, and Philosophy," at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Publication of the book would not have been possible without the support given to the Symposium by many individuals and groups. The Editors thank everyone involved for their kind and generous assistance. Specifi cally, we thank the invited speakers at the Symposium, Thomas A. Sebeok, H. Lyn Miles, Roger S. Fouts, and Thomas Simon. The chapters in this book by Miles, Fouts, and Simon are revised versions of their lectures at the Symposium. We thank Edward Simmel for his encouragement, his patience with our efforts, and his help in planning and directing the Symposium. For their financial assistance, we thank the co-sponsors of the Symposium: the Sigma Chi Foundation/William P. Huffman Scholar-in Residence Program at Miami University, as well as the Departments of Classics, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology and Anthropology at Miami. We thank Barbara Johnson, Polly J. Harris and Brenda Shaw for their secretarial and editorial help, and Shirley Gallimore for her patience, care, good humor, and hard work in typing the manuscript. Finally, we thank the contributors to this volume.
Author | : Barbara J. King |
Publisher | : School for Advanced Research Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Is human language unique in the natural world, or does it have meaningful precursors in animal communication? In this book, primatologists and palaeoanthropologists examine the non-human primate data and use their research to present new theories of language origin and evolution.
Author | : Gisela Håkansson |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-06-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027272018 |
Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of as a unique system, which separates humans from other animals. This textbook serves as a guide to different types of communication, and suggests that each is unique in its own way: human verbal and nonverbal communication, communication in nonhuman primates, in dogs and in birds. Research questions and findings from different perspectives are summarized and integrated to show students similarities and differences in the rich diversity of communicative behaviours. A core topic is how young individuals proceed from not being able to communicate to reaching a state of competent communicators, and the role of adults in this developmental process. Evolutionary aspects are also taken into consideration, and ideas about the evolution of human language are examined. The cross-disciplinary nature of the book makes it useful for courses in linguistics, biology, sociology and psychology, but it is also valuable reading for anyone interested in understanding communicative behaviour.