Illuminating language origins from the perspective of contemporary ontogeny in human infants

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Primate communication and human language 1
4. Part 1. Primate vocal communication: New findings about its complexity, adaptability and control
5. Living links to human language 13
6. What can forest guenons “tell” us about the origin of language? 39
7. Do chimpanzees have voluntary control of their facial expressions and vocalizations? 71
8. Part 2. Neurophysiological, behavioural and ontogenetic data on the evolution of communicative orofacial and manual gestures
9. From gesture to language 91
10. Mirror neurons and imitation from a developmental and evolutionary perspective 121
11. Lashley’s problem of serial order and the evolution of learnable vocal and manual communication 139
12. Part 3. Emergence and development of speech, gestures and language
13. Naming with gestures in children with typical development and with Down syndrome 155
14. Illuminating language origins from the perspective of contemporary ontogeny in human infants 173
15. Emergence of articulatory-acoustic systems from deictic interaction games in a “Vocalize to Localize” framework 193
16. 2 + 2 Linguistic minimal frames 221
17. Name index 233
18. Subject index 237