D. Kimbrough Oller

The Emergence of the Speech Capacity (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Oller constructs a new infrastructural model of vocal communication systems that permits provocative reconceptualizations of the ways infant vocalizations progress systematically toward speech, insightful comparaisons between..

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135684976
• Artikelnr.: 42977890

Autorenporträt

D. Kimbrough Oller

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Interpretation of Communication Systems: The Role of
Infrastructural Modeling. Myths About Babbling and the Tradition of
Transcription. Reversing the Field: The Recognition of Protophones.
Infraphonology: Overview and Central Results. Keys to an Infrastructural
Approach: Infraphonology as a Basis for Vocal Comparisons. The Grounding of
Vocal and Gestural Development in Biology and Experience: Physical
Foundations for Speech and Sign Language. Canalization Results: The
Stability of Protophone Development in a Variety of Contexts. Limits on the
Disruption of the Canalized Pattern of Babbling. An Expanded View of the
Landscape in Infant Vocalizations: Infrastructure for Sounds and Functions
in Babbling. Protophones and Other Vocalizations. Primate Vocalizations in
the Perspective of Infraphonology and Infrasemiotics. Infrastructural
Properties of Communication in Humans and Nonhuman Primates. Possible
Stages of Vocal Evolution in the Human Family. Comparing Fixed Vocal
Signals Across Humans and Other Modern Primate Species. Infrastructural
Pursuits in Vocal Development and Evolution.