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Evolution of communicative flexibility : complexity, creativity, and adaptability in human and animal communication / edited by D Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel.
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English
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
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x, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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P91 .E96 2008
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Communication
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Animal communication
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Language and languages
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Origin
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Human evolution
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Vienna series in theoretical biology
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Summary note
Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
Signal and functional flexibility in the emergence of communication systems: the editors' introduction / D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel
Evolutionary forces favoring communicative flexibility / Ulrike Griebel and D. Kimbrough Oller
Vocal learning in mammals with special emphasis on pinnipeds / Ronald J. Schusterman
Contextually flexible communication in nonhuman primates / Charles T. Snowdon
Constraints in primate vocal production / Kurt Hammerschmidt and Julia Fischer
Contextual sensitivity and bird song: a basis for social life / Martine Hausberger ... [et al.]
Contextual flexibility in infant vocal development and the earliest steps in the evolution of language / D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel
Scaffolds for babbling innateness and learning in the emergence of contex[t]ually flexible vocal production in human infants / Michael J. Owren and Michael H. Goldstein
Cognitive precursors to language / Brian MacWhinney
Language and niche construction / Kim Sterelny-- How apes use gestures: the issue of flexibility / Josep Call
The role of play in the evolution and ontogeny of contextually flexible communication / Stan Kuczaj and Radhika Makecha
Detection and estimation of complexity and contextual flexibility in nonhuman animal communication / Brenda McCowan ... [et al.]
The evolution of flexibility in bird song / Robert F. Lachlan
Development and evolution of speech sound categories principles and models / Gert Westermann.
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ISBN
9780262151214 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262151219 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008005750
OCLC
192045666
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H - S
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