Primate Communication and Human Language

Abstract

1. Primate communication and human language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans 2. Part 1. Primate vocal communication: New findings about its complexity, adaptability and control 3. Living links to human language (by Zuberbuhler, Klaus) 4. What can forest guenons tell us about the origin of language? (by Lemasson, Alban) 5. Do chimpanzees have voluntary control of their facial expressions and vocalizations? (by Hopkins, William D.) 6. Part 2. Neurophysiological, behavioural and ontogenetic data on the evolution of communicative orofacial and manual gestures 7. From gesture to language: Ontogenetic and phylogenetic perspectives on gestural communication and its cerebral lateralization (by Meguerditchian, Adrien) 8. Mirror neurons and imitation from a developmental and evolutionary perspective (by Ferrari, Pier Francesco) 9. Lashley's problem of serial order and the evolution of learnable vocal and manual communication (by MacNeilage, Peter F.) 10. Part 3. Emergence and development of speech, gestures and language 11. Naming with gestures in children with typical development and with Down syndrome (by Stefanini, Silvia) 12. Illuminating language origins from the perspective of contemporary ontogeny in human infants (by Davis, Barbara L.) 13. Emergence of articulatory-acoustic systems from deictic interaction games in a Vocalize to Localize framework (by Moulin-Frier, Clement) 14. 2 + 2 Linguistic minimal frames: For a language evolutionary framework (by Abry, Christian) 15. Name index 16. Subject index