The origins of language unraveling evolutionary forces / Nobuo Masataka (ed.).
| Other author | Masataka, Nobuo, 1954- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Tokyo : Springer, |
| Description | viii, 157 p. : ill. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The gestural theory of and the vocal theory of language origins are not incompatible with one another / M. Masataka -- The gestural origins of language / M.C. Corballis -- World-view of protolanguage speakers as inferred from semantics of sound symbolic words : a case of Japanese mimetics / S. Kita -- Japanese mothers' use of specialized vocabulary in infant-directed speech : infant-directed vocabulary in Japanese / R. Mazuka, T. Kondo, and A. Hayashi -- Short-term acoustic modifications during dynamic vocal interactions in nonhuman primates - implications for origins of motherese / H. Koda -- Vocal learning in nonhuman primates : importance of vocal contexts / C. Yamaguchi and A. Izumi -- The ontogeny and phylogeny of bimodal primate vocal communication / A.A. Ghazanfar and D.J. Lewkowicz -- Understanding the dynamics of primate vocalization and its implications for the evolution of human speech / T. Nishimura -- Implication of the human musical faculty for evolution of language / N. Masataka. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008928680 |
| ISBN | 9784431791010 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 4431791019 (alk. paper) |
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