Gestural communication in nonhuman and human primates

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Liebal, Katja., Müller, Cornelia., Pika, Simone.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007.
Series:Benjamins current topics ; v. 10.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller, and Simone Pika
  • The syntactic motor system / Alice C. Roy and Michael A. Arbib
  • The gestural communication of apes / Simone Pika ... [et al.]
  • Gestural communication in three species of macaques (Macaca mulatta, M. nemestrina, M. arctoides): use of signals in relation to dominance and social context / Dario Maestripieri
  • Multimodal concomitants of manual gesture by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): influence of food size and distance / David Leavens and William Hopkins
  • Requesting gestures in captive monkeys and apes: conditioned responses or referential behaviours? / Juan Carlos Gómez
  • Cross-fostered chimpanzees modulate signs of American Sign Language / Valerie J. Chalcraft and R. Allen Gardner
  • Human twelve-month-olds point cooperatively to share interest with and helpfully provide information for a communicative partner / Ulf Liszkowski
  • From action to language through gesture: a longitudinal perspective / Olga Capirici ... [et al.]
  • The link (and differences) between deixis and symbols in children's early gestural-vocal system / Elena Pizzuto and Micaela Capobianco
  • A cross-cultural comparison of communicative gestures in human infants during the transition to language / Joanna Blake ... [et al.]
  • How does linguistic framing of events co-speech gestures? Insights from crosslinguistic variations and similarities / Asli Özyürek ... [et al.]
  • The two faces of gesture: language and thought / Susan Goldin-Meadow
  • Gestures in human and nonhuman primates: why we need a comparative view / Cornelia Müller.