Origins of Human Language
Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates
Contributor(s)
Boë, Louis-Jean (editor)
Fagot, Joël (editor)
Perrier, Pascal (editor)
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
103091Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Languages; Phonetics; phonology; Primate communication; human language; origins of language; animal communicationDOI
10.3726/b12405ISBN
9783631738078;9783631738085OCN
1100526794Publisher website
https://www.peterlang.com/Publication date and place
2017-12-01Series
Speech Production and Perception,Classification
Phonetics, phonology