UID:
almafu_9959243929602883
Format:
1 online resource (367 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-262-30991-2
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0-262-28102-3
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1-4356-7721-8
Series Statement:
The Vienna series in theoretical biology
Content:
Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Reference; I INTRODUCTION; 1 Signal and Functional Flexibility in the Emergence of Communication Systems: The Editors' Introduction; II CROSS-SPECIES PERSPECTIVES ON FORCES AND PATTERNS OF FLEXIBILITY IN COMMUNICATION; 2 Evolutionary Forces Favoring Communicative Flexibility; 3 Vocal Learning in Mammals with Special Emphasis on Pinnipeds; 4 Contextually Flexible Communication in Nonhuman Primates; 5 Constraints in Primate Vocal Production; 6 Contextual Sensitivity and Bird Song: A Basis for Social Life
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III THE ROLE OF FLEXIBILITY AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPLEXITY IN THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE7 Contextual Flexibility in Infant Vocal Development and the Earliest Stepsin the Evolution of Language; 8 Scaffolds for Babbling: Innateness and Learning in the Emergence of Contexually Flexible Vocal Production in Human Infants; 9 Cognitive Precursors to Language; 10 Language and Niche Construction; IV UNDERPINNINGS OF COMMUNICATIVE CONTROL: FOUNDATIONS FOR FLEXIBLE COMMUNICATION; 11 How Apes Use Gestures: The Issue of Flexibility
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12 The Role of Play in the Evolution and Ontogeny of Contextually Flexible CommunicationV MODELING OF THE EMERGENCE OF COMPLEXITY AND FLEXIBILITY IN COMMUNICATION; 13 Detection and Estimation of Complexity and Contextual Flexibility in Nonhuman Animal Communication; 14 The Evolution of Flexibility in Bird Song; 15 Development and Evolution of Speech Sound Categories: Principles and Models; Contributors; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-15121-9
Language:
English
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