Vocalize to Localize (Benjamins Current Topics)

Vocalize to Localize......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Foreword: Vocalize to Localize......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Vocalize to Localize: Just a speech scientist’s bias?......Page 12
Vocalizing to localize predators by conspecific calls......Page 13
First gestural references with vocal/gestural predicates?......Page 14
The missing link: A ‘referential and conceptual feces’?......Page 15
A Sign Language case of reference lumped with the predicate (and beyond)......Page 16
Commands = predicates with implicit references, and ‘fossils’......Page 17
Coupling with pointing, and without leaving the ‘royal road to language’ unpaved......Page 18
Neural ‘that-path’ and ‘stabil-loop’: Two pieces in the puzzle of language evolution......Page 19
The ultimate lesson from meerkats: No more pure armchair stories!......Page 20
References......Page 21
About the authors......Page 22
Vocalize to localize......Page 24
Introduction......Page 25
Posture of alarm caller depending on context......Page 27
Response to playback experiments......Page 28
Posture of alarm caller depending on the call type elicited by the predators......Page 29
Response to playback experiments of alarm calls......Page 33
Discussion......Page 35
References......Page 38
About the authors......Page 39
Introductory remarks......Page 40
Vocal communication in primates and its limitations for language evolution......Page 41
Gestural communication as a suitable substrate for language evolution......Page 42
Action vs. movement......Page 43
Mirror neurons and gestural communication......Page 44
Homology between F5 and Broca’s area......Page 49
Gestures and sound association for the evolution of human speech......Page 51
References......Page 53
About the authors......Page 56
The gestural hypothesis of speech origin and animal models......Page 58
Gestures, speech and hemispheric control in adults, children, infants and fetuses......Page 59
Evidence for neuroanatomical asymmetries in the brain of apes......Page 61
Behavioral evidence of asymmetries in the perception and production of auditory communications......Page 62
Laterality and manual gestures in intentional communication......Page 64
Mirror neurons in the monkey brain......Page 67
Some functional differences between animal communication and human language......Page 68
Cortical control of nonhuman primates’ vocalizations......Page 70
Theoretical implications......Page 71
References......Page 73
About the Author......Page 77
Manual deixis in apes and humans......Page 78
What is intentional communication?......Page 81
What is a point?......Page 82
What does pointing do?......Page 83
Environmental correlates of pointing in apes and humans......Page 87
Implications for the evolution of manual deixis......Page 91
References......Page 93
About the author......Page 97
Neandertal vocal tract......Page 98
1. A largely widespread but controversial theory......Page 99
1.1 An unlikely skull reconstruction......Page 100
1.2 Unrealistic vocal tract shapes and thus unrealistic vowel triangle......Page 101
2. A flexible articulatory-acoustic vocal tract model......Page 104
3. Maximal Vowel Space and the point vowels /i a u/......Page 106
3.1 The Maximal Vowel Space and compensation phenomena......Page 107
4. Influence of the Larynx Height Index on the Maximal Vowel Space......Page 108
5. Proposals for /i/, /a/, and /u/ prototypes for different Larynx Height Indexes......Page 109
6. Discussion and conclusion......Page 112
References......Page 113
About the first author......Page 117
Language: What is to be explained?......Page 118
What would it mean to explain the evolution of human language?......Page 120
The mirror system approach to the evolution of human language......Page 122
MacNeilage’s frame/content theory: A critique......Page 124
The doctrine of the expanding spiral......Page 128
Conclusions......Page 135
Acknowledgements......Page 138
Notes......Page 139
References......Page 140
About the author......Page 142
Introduction......Page 144
F/C theory: Relations between phylogeny and ontogeny......Page 148
The Origin of the Word......Page 153
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny?......Page 154
Neurological aspects of F/C theory......Page 156
Arbib’s gestural origins alternative......Page 157
Summary......Page 163
References......Page 165
About the authors......Page 168
Intentional communication and the anterior cingulate cortex......Page 170
A second-order neural structure?......Page 172
Human specificity of the limbic structures......Page 173
Anterior cingulate cortex — A controversial architecture......Page 174
Other macrostructural characteristics......Page 175
Microstructural characteristics......Page 176
Anterior cingulate cortex and communication......Page 178
Control of vocalizations......Page 179
Lesion data and the initiation of speech......Page 180
Neuroimaging data......Page 181
Joint attention and the anterior cingulate cortex......Page 182
Conclusions......Page 183
References......Page 184
About the author......Page 188
1. Introduction......Page 190
1.1 Methodological issues......Page 193
2.2 Coding and analysis......Page 197
3. Results and discussion......Page 202
3.1 One-element gestural and vocal utterances......Page 204
3.2 Two-element utterances......Page 205
3.3 Multi-element utterances: Crossmodal vs. vocal......Page 210
3.4 The temporal relationship between gestures, vocalizations and words......Page 211
4. Conclusion......Page 213
References......Page 215
About the authors......Page 217
Building a talking baby robot......Page 218
1.1 Linking perception and action in speech robotics......Page 219
1.2 A viewpoint on speech development......Page 220
2.1 The articulatory model......Page 221
2.2 The sensory models......Page 223
2.3 The model of sensori-motor learning......Page 227
3.2 Acoustic framing......Page 230
3.4 Geometric framing......Page 232
4.1 An overview of Kuhl and Meltzoff’s experiment on early vocal imitation......Page 236
4.2 Specifying the model......Page 237
4.3 Learning the model......Page 238
4.4 Implementing auditory and audio-visual imitation......Page 239
4.5 A and AV imitation results......Page 240
4.6 Conclusion......Page 242
5. Perspectives in the study of ontogeny and phylogeny......Page 243
References......Page 244
About the authors......Page 248
1. Introduction......Page 250
2.1 Input representations......Page 253
2.2 Learning word meanings: Lexical semantics......Page 256
2.3 Mapping sentence to meaning: Phrasal semantics......Page 257
3.1 Aspects of the descriptive and information tiers......Page 260
3.2 Aspects of referential tier and beyond......Page 262
4. Discussion......Page 264
References......Page 266
About the author......Page 269
Appendix: Sentence type data base......Page 270
1. Introduction......Page 272
2. Related frontal impairments of speech, language and action......Page 274
2.1 Aphasic speech automatisms......Page 275
3. Discussion: From automatisms to syntax in a frontal speech-action system......Page 285
References......Page 289
About the author......Page 293
Name index......Page 296
Subject index......Page 304
The series Benjamins Current Topics......Page 324