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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554868203321

Titolo

Human communication : origins, mechanisms and functions / / edited by Maria D. Sera, Melissa Koenig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-119-68434-X

1-119-68452-8

1-119-68431-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages)

Collana

The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology Ser.

Disciplina

155.4136

Soggetti

Children - Language

Interpersonal communication in children

Child psychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology Volume 40 -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Phylogenetic Origins -- 1. A Very Long Look Back at Language Development: Exploring the Evolutionary Origins of Human Language -- 2. Building a Communication System in Infancy -- 3. Connecting Language Acquisition and Language Evolution: Clues from the Emergence of Nicaraguan Sign Language* -- Part II: Ontogenetic Origins and Mechanisms -- 4. The Role of Prenatal Experience and Basic Auditory Mechanisms in the Development of Language -- 5. Infant Speech Perception: Integration of Multimodal Data Leads to a New Hypothesis - Sensorimotor Mechanisms Underlie Learning -- Part III: Functions -- 6. Does Vocabulary Help Structure the Mind? -- 7. Numerical Symbols as Explanations of Human Perceptual Experience -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- EULA.