TY - BOOK ID - 36613376 TI - Origins of human language : continuities and discontinuities with nonhuman primates PY - 2017 SN - 9783631737262 3631737262 3631738080 3631738072 PB - Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Edition, DB - UniCat KW - Animal communication. KW - Language and languages KW - Primates. KW - Origin. KW - Animal biocommunication KW - Animal language KW - Biocommunication, Animal KW - Language learning by animals KW - Animal behavior KW - Origin of languages KW - Speech KW - Quadrumana KW - Mammals KW - Origin UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:36613376 AB - 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. ER -