The origins of language revisited : differentiation from music and the emergence of neurodiversity and autism /: differentiation from music and the emergence of neurodiversity and autism. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nobuo Masataka, editor.
• Editors: Masataka, Nobuo, 1954-
• Contents: Chapter 1. Evidence for the gestural origins of language that is not incompatible with the vocal theory of language origins -- Chapter 2. Primate Voice Physiology: Similarities and Difference between Humans and Non-Human Primates -- Chapter 3. Integrations of multiple abilities underlying the evolution of primate vocalizations -- Chapter 4. Conversational rules among primate species -- Chapter 5. Language evolution from a perspective of Brocas area -- Chapter 6. Social scaffolding of the development of vocal communication and language during infancy -- Chapter 7. Emergence of the distinction between "verbal" and "musical" skills in early childhood development -- Chapter 8. Yakut tradition of "Talking Jew's Harp" and its relation to vowel harmony as a paradigm of formative influence of music on language -- Chapter 9. Were musicians and artists in the Ice Age caves likely with autism spectrum disorder? -- A neurodiversity hypothesis to explain the co-emergence of art and music as a type of prosodic protolanguage.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (345 pages)
• Subjects: 401; Language and languages -- Origin; Music and language; Human evolution; Anthropological linguistics; Animal communication; Music and language; Human evolution; Anthropological linguistics; Animal communication; Language and languages -- Origin
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811542503
• Related ISBNs: 9789811542497
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