Origins of Human Language: Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates

This book proposes a detailed picture of the continuities and ruptures between communication in primates and language in humans.

Autorentext

Louis-Jean Boë, Pascal Perrier and Jean-Luc Schwartz are speech scientists in GIPSA-lab, Université Grenoble Alpes & CNRS, France. Joël Fagot is a primatologist specialist of animal cognition in Aix-Marseille University, France.

Inhalt

Vocal Repertoire of Captive Guinea Baboons - Exploring Baboon Vocalizations with Speech Science Techniques - Origins of Human Consonants and Vowels: Articulatory Continuities with Great Apes - Comparative Anatomy of the Baboon and Human Vocal Tracts - Evolution of the laryngeal motor cortex for speech production - Motor and Communicative Correlates of the Inferior Frontal Gyrus - From Animal Communication to Linguistics and Back - Primate Roots of Speech and Language - What gestures of nonhuman primates can (and cannot) tell us about language evolution - Dendrophilia and the Evolution of Syntax - Comparing Human and Nonhuman Animal Performance on Domain-General Functions