04142oam 2200721Ia 450 991078211530332120190503073346.00-262-30991-20-262-28102-31-4356-7721-8(CKB)1000000000539279(EBL)3338930(OCoLC)273057727(SSID)ssj0000151429(PQKBManifestationID)11157964(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000151429(PQKBWorkID)10317397(PQKB)10713848(StDuBDS)EDZ0000130694(MiAaPQ)EBC3338930(OCoLC)273057727(OCoLC)646764015(OCoLC)764496633(OCoLC)768674156(OCoLC)770830050(OCoLC)961593244(OCoLC)962565742(OCoLC)991954396(OCoLC)992069734(OCoLC)1037925301(OCoLC)1038692976(OCoLC)1045499978(OCoLC)1055376391(OCoLC)1058122637(OCoLC)1066684875(OCoLC)1081185072(OCoLC-P)273057727(MaCbMITP)7650(Au-PeEL)EBL3338930(CaPaEBR)ebr10251665(EXLCZ)99100000000053927920081118d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEvolution of communicative flexibility complexity, creativity, and adaptability in human and animal communication /edited by D Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike GriebelCambridge, Mass. MIT Press©20081 online resource (367 p.)The Vienna series in theoretical biologyDescription based upon print version of record.0-262-15121-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Reference; I INTRODUCTION; 1 Signal and Functional Flexibility in the Emergence of Communication Systems: The Editors' Introduction; II CROSS-SPECIES PERSPECTIVES ON FORCES AND PATTERNS OF FLEXIBILITY IN COMMUNICATION; 2 Evolutionary Forces Favoring Communicative Flexibility; 3 Vocal Learning in Mammals with Special Emphasis on Pinnipeds; 4 Contextually Flexible Communication in Nonhuman Primates; 5 Constraints in Primate Vocal Production; 6 Contextual Sensitivity and Bird Song: A Basis for Social LifeIII THE ROLE OF FLEXIBILITY AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPLEXITY IN THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE7 Contextual Flexibility in Infant Vocal Development and the Earliest Stepsin the Evolution of Language; 8 Scaffolds for Babbling: Innateness and Learning in the Emergence of Contexually Flexible Vocal Production in Human Infants; 9 Cognitive Precursors to Language; 10 Language and Niche Construction; IV UNDERPINNINGS OF COMMUNICATIVE CONTROL: FOUNDATIONS FOR FLEXIBLE COMMUNICATION; 11 How Apes Use Gestures: The Issue of Flexibility12 The Role of Play in the Evolution and Ontogeny of Contextually Flexible CommunicationV MODELING OF THE EMERGENCE OF COMPLEXITY AND FLEXIBILITY IN COMMUNICATION; 13 Detection and Estimation of Complexity and Contextual Flexibility in Nonhuman Animal Communication; 14 The Evolution of Flexibility in Bird Song; 15 Development and Evolution of Speech Sound Categories: Principles and Models; Contributors; IndexExperts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language.Vienna series in theoretical biology.CommunicationAnimal communicationLanguage and languagesOriginHuman evolutionBIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/GeneralBIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/EvolutionCommunication.Animal communication.Language and languagesOrigin.Human evolution.302.2Oller D. Kimbrough623938Griebel Ulrike1477480OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910782115303321Evolution of communicative flexibility3692667UNINA