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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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
Description
x, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    Vienna series in theoretical biology [More in this series]
    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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Action note
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780262151214 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    • 0262151219 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    ^^2008005750
    OCLC
    192045666
    RCP
    H - S
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