Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. About the Authors ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Evolution of language and the role of gestural communication
6. The syntactic motor system 7
7. Part II. Gestural communication in nonhuman primates
8. The gestural communication of apes 37
9. Gestural communication in three species of macaques ( Macaca mulatta , M. nemestrina , M. arctoides ) 53
10. Multimodal concomitants of manual gesture by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) 69
11. Requesting gestures in captive monkeys and apes 83
12. Cross-fostered chimpanzees modulate signs of American Sign Language 97
13. Part III. Gestural communication in human primates
14. Human twelve-month-olds point cooperatively to share interest with and helpfully provide information for a communicative partner 123
15. From action to language through gesture 141
16. The link and differences between deixis and symbols in children’s early gestural-vocal system 163
17. A cross-cultural comparison of communicative gestures in human infants during the transition to language 183
18. How does linguistic framing of events influence co-speech gestures? 199
19. The two faces of gesture 219
20. Part IV. Future directions
21. Gestures in human and nonhuman primates 237
22. Book Review
23. Michael C. Corballis (2002). From hand to mouth. The origins of language 261
24. Index 281