Primate communication and human language : vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans / edited by Anne Vilain, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry, Jacques Vauclair
Published
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011
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
