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- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Signal and Functional Flexibility in the Emergence of Communication System: 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 Life
- III THE ROLE OF FLEXIBILITY AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPLEXITY IN THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
- 7. Contextual Flexibility in Infant Vocal Development and the Earliest Steps in 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 Flexibility
- 12 The Role of Play in the Evolution and Ontogeny of Contextually Flexible Communication
- V 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
- Index
(p.139) III THE ROLE OF FLEXIBILITY AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPLEXITY IN THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
(p.139) III THE ROLE OF FLEXIBILITY AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPLEXITY IN THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
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- Evolution of Communicative Flexibility
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262151214.011.0003
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- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Signal and Functional Flexibility in the Emergence of Communication System: 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 Life
- III THE ROLE OF FLEXIBILITY AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPLEXITY IN THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
- 7. Contextual Flexibility in Infant Vocal Development and the Earliest Steps in 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 Flexibility
- 12 The Role of Play in the Evolution and Ontogeny of Contextually Flexible Communication
- V 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
- Index
