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9 September 2010

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Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates

Special issue of Gesture 5:1/2 (2005)

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Edited by Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika
University of Portsmouth / Freie Universität Berlin / University of St. Andrews

Gesture 5:1/2

2005. 324 pp.
Publishing status: Available

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Table of contents

Introduction: Gestural communication in nonhuman and human primates
Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika
1–5
Articles
The syntactic motor system
Alice C. Roy and Michael A. Arbib
7–37
Gestural communication in nonhuman primates
Gestural communication of apes
Simone Pika, Katja Liebal, Josep Call and Michael Tomasello
41–56
Gestural communication in three species of macaques (Macaca mulatta, M. nemestrina, M. arctoides): Use of signals in relation to dominance and social context
Dario Maestripieri
57–73
Multimodal concomitants of manual gesture by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Influence of food size and distance
David A. Leavens and William D. Hopkins
75–90
Requesting gestures in captive monkeys and apes: Conditioned responses or referential behaviours?
Juan Carlos Gómez
91–105
Cross-fostered chimpanzees modulate signs of American Sign Language
Valerie J. Chalcraft and R. Allen Gardner
107–132
Gestural communication in human primates
Human twelve-month-olds point cooperatively to share interest with and helpfully provide information for a communicative partner
Ulf Liszkowski
135–154
From action to language through gesture: A longitudinal perspective
Olga Capirci, Annarita Contaldo, Maria Cristina Caselli and Virginia Volterra
155–177
The link (and differences) between deixis and symbols in children’s early gestural-vocal system
Elena Antinoro Pizzuto and Micaela Capobianco
179–199
A cross-cultural comparison of communicative gestures in human infants during the transition to language
Joanna Blake, Grace Vitale, Patricia Osborne and Esther Olshansky
201–217
How does linguistic framing of events influence co-speech gestures? Insights from crosslinguistic variations and similarities
Aslı Özyürek, Sotaro Kita, Shanley Allen, Reyhan Furman and Amanda Brown
219–240
The two faces of gesture: Language and thought
Susan Goldin-Meadow
241–257
Gestures in human and nonhuman primates: Why we need a comparative view
Cornelia Müller
259–283
Book Review
285–304
Recent, new, and forthcoming books on gesture and related topics
305–306
Notes
Further information and weblinks
307
309
311–312