The origins of language : unraveling evolutionary forces /
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Imprint: | Tokyo : Springer, c2008. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 157 p.) : ill. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8886967 |
Table of Contents:
- The gestural theory of and the vocal theory of language origins are not incompatible with one another / M. Masataka
- The gestural origins of language / M.C. Corballis
- World-view of protolanguage speakers as inferred from semantics of sound symbolic words : a case of Japanese mimetics / S. Kita
- Japanese mothers' use of specialized vocabulary in infant-directed speech : infant-directed vocabulary in Japanese / R. Mazuka, T. Kondo, and A. Hayashi
- Short-term acoustic modifications during dynamic vocal interactions in nonhuman primates
- implications for origins of motherese / H. Koda
- Vocal learning in nonhuman primates : importance of vocal contexts / C. Yamaguchi and A. Izumi
- The ontogeny and phylogeny of bimodal primate vocal communication / A.A. Ghazanfar and D.J. Lewkowicz
- Understanding the dynamics of primate vocalization and its implications for the evolution of human speech / T. Nishimura
- Implication of the human musical faculty for evolution of language / N. Masataka.