Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations

M Fröhlich, C Sievers, SW Townsend… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The presence of divergent and independent research traditions in the gestural and vocal
domains of primate communication has resulted in major discrepancies in the definition and …

The multi-dimensional nature of vocal learning

SC Vernes, BP Kriengwatana… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How learning affects vocalizations is a key question in the study of animal communication
and human language. Parallel efforts in birds and humans have taught us much about how …

Chimpanzees produce diverse vocal sequences with ordered and recombinatorial properties

C Girard-Buttoz, E Zaccarella, T Bortolato… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The origins of human language remains a major question in evolutionary science. Unique to
human language is the capacity to flexibly recombine a limited sound set into words and …

Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls

TN Suzuki, D Wheatcroft, M Griesser - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Human language can express limitless meanings from a finite set of words based on
combinatorial rules (ie, compositional syntax). Although animal vocalizations may be …

[BOOK][B] The language myth: Why language is not an instinct

V Evans - 2014 - books.google.com
Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other
species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique …

Campbell's monkeys concatenate vocalizations into context-specific call sequences

K Ouattara, A Lemasson… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Primate vocal behavior is often considered irrelevant in modeling human language
evolution, mainly because of the caller's limited vocal control and apparent lack of …

Animal communication in linguistic and cognitive perspective

T Scott-Phillips, C Heintz - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Detailed comparative studies have revealed many surface similarities between linguistic
communication and the communication of nonhumans. How should we interpret these …

[BOOK][B] The emoji code: How smiley faces, love hearts and thumbs up are changing the way we communicate

V Evans - 2017 - books.google.com
Since 2011, the use of emoji-deriving from the Japanese, meaning picture character-has
become a global phenomenon. We send over 6 billion emoji every day and regularly send …

[BOOK][B] The primate origins of human nature

CP Van Schaik - 2016 - books.google.com
The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …

The language void: the need for multimodality in primate communication research

KE Slocombe, BM Waller, K Liebal - Animal Behaviour, 2011 - Elsevier
Theories of language evolution often draw heavily on comparative evidence of the
communicative abilities of extant nonhuman primates (primates). Many theories have …