Interweaving protosign and protospeech: Further developments beyond the mirror

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1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword: Vocalize to Localize vii
4. Introduction: Vocalize to Localize? A call for better crosstalk between auditory and visual communication systems researchers 1
5. Vocalize to Localize: A test on functionally referential alarm calls 13
6. Mirror neurons, gestures and language evolution 29
7. Lateralization of communicative signals in nonhuman primates and the hypothesis of the gestural origin of language 47
8. Manual deixis in apes and humans 67
9. Neandertal vocal tract: Which potential for vowel acoustics? 87
10. Interweaving protosign and protospeech: Further developments beyond the mirror 107
11. The Frame/Content theory of evolution of speech: A comparison with a gestural-origins alternative 133
12. Intentional communication and the anterior cingulate cortex 159
13. Gestural-vocal deixis and representational skills in early language development 179
14. Building a talking baby robot: A contribution to the study of speech acquisition and evolution 207
15. Aspects of descriptive, referential and information structure in phrasal semantics: A contruction-based model 239
16. First in, last out? The evolution of aphasic lexical speech automatisms to agrammatism and the evolution of human communication 261
17. Name index 285
18. Subject index 293