Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-260) and indexes.
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Prelinguistic vocalizations -- Sound-meaning correspondences -- Communicative gestures -- Symbolic gestures and symbolic play -- Tool use and object concept -- Representation in human infants -- Memory in nonhuman primates and young children -- Origins of language -- Recapitulation.
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"This book provides a detailed comparison of nonhuman primates and human infants with regard to key abilities that provide the foundation for language. It makes the case for phylogenetic continuity across species and ontogenetic continuity from infancy to childhood. Examined here are the fundamental aspects of language acquisition, such as vocalizations, mapping of meaning onto sound, use of gestures to communicate and to symbolize, tool use, object concept, and memory. The author provides evidence linking these abilities with language acquisition. This volume goes a step further to analyze the similarities and differences across species in these precursors and how these may have influenced the evolution of language."--Jacket.