Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (324 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Benjamins current topics v. 13
Parallel Title:
Print version Vocalize to Localize
DDC:
302.2242
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Vocalize-to-Localize? Meerkats do it for specific predators… And babies point with their index finger toward targets of interest at about nine months, well before using language-specific that-demonstratives. With what-interrogatives they are universal and, as relativizers and complementizers, play an important role in grammar construction. Some alarm calls in nonhumans display more than mere localization: semantics and even syntax. Instead of telling another monomodal story about language origin, in this volume advocates of representational gestures, semantically transparent, but with a proble
Description / Table of Contents:
Vocalize to Localize; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword: Vocalize to Localize; Introduction; Vocalize to localize; Mirror neurons, gestures and language evolution; Lateralization of communicative signals in nonhuman primates and the hypothesis of the gestural origin of language; Manual deixis in apes and humans; Neandertal vocal tract; Interweaving protosign and protospeech; The Frame/Content theory of evolution of speech; Intentional communication and the anterior cingulate cortex; Gestural-vocal deixis and representational skills in early language development
Description / Table of Contents:
Building a talking baby robotAspects of descriptive, referential, and information structure in phrasal semantics; First in, last out?; Name index; Subject index; The series Benjamins Current Topics;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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