Origins of Human Language: Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates
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Origins of Human Language: Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Origins of Human Language: Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction to “Origins of Human Language: Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates” (Louis-Jean Boë / Joël Fagot / Pascal Perrier / Jean-Luc Schwartz)
  4. Vocal Repertoire of Captive Guinea Baboons (Papio papio) (Caralyn Kemp / Arnaud Rey / Thierry Legou / Louis-Jean Boë / Frédéric Berthommier / Yannick Becker / Joël Fagot)
  5. What’s up with Wahoo? Exploring Baboon Vocalizations with Speech Science Techniques (Louis-Jean Boë / Thomas R. Sawallis / Jöel Fagot / Frédéric Berthommier)
  6. Origins of Human Consonants and Vowels: Articulatory Continuities with Great Apes (Adriano R. Lameira)
  7. Comparative Anatomy of the Baboon and Human Vocal Tracts: Renewal of Methods, Data, and Hypotheses (Frédéric Berthommier / Louis-Jean Boë / Adrien Meguerditchian / Thomas R. Sawallis / Guillaume Captier)
  8. Evolution of the Laryngeal Motor Cortex for Speech Production (Veena Kumar / Kristina Simonyan)
  9. Motor and Communicative Correlates of the Inferior Frontal Gyrus (Broca’s Area) in Chimpanzees (William D. Hopkins)
  10. From Animal Communication to Linguistics and Back: Insight from Combinatorial Abilities in Monkeys and Birds (Camille Coye / Simon Townsend / Alban Lemasson)
  11. Primate Roots of Speech and Language (Klaus Zuberbühler)
  12. What Gestures of Nonhuman Primates Can (and Cannot) Tell Us about Language Evolution (Katja Liebal)
  13. Dendrophilia and the Evolution of Syntax (W Tecumseh Fitch)
  14. Comparing Human and Nonhuman Animal Performance on Domain-General Functions: Towards a Multiple Bottleneck Scenario of Language Evolution (Joël Fagot / Raphaëlle Malassis / Tiphaine Medam / Marie Montant)