TY  - BOOK
AU  - Louis-Jean Boë
AU  - Joël Fagot
AU  - Pascal Perrier
AU  - Jean-Luc Schwartz
PY  - 2018
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-8651
SN  - 9783631738078
TI  - Origins of Human Language: Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates
DO  - 10.3726/b12405
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1068079
N2  - 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.
KW  - vocal tract anatomy, Bamboon, Great Apes, Monkeys, Evolution, Language
LA  - English
ER  -