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The Origins of Language
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Table of Contents
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Altmetric BadgeBook Overview
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 1 The Gestural Theory of and the Vocal Theory of Language Origins Are Not Incompatible with One Another
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 2 The Gestural Origins of Language
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 3 World-View of Protolanguage Speakers as Inferred from Semantics of Sound Symbolic Words: A Case of Japanese Mimetics
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 4 Japanese Mothers’ Use of Specialized Vocabulary in Infant-Directed Speech: Infant-Directed Vocabulary in Japanese
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 5 Short-Term Acoustic Modifications During Dynamic Vocal Interactions in Nonhuman Primates— Implications for Origins of Motherese
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 6 Vocal Learning in Nonhuman Primates: Importance of Vocal Contexts
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 7 The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Bimodal Primate Vocal Communication
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 8 Understanding the Dynamics of Primate Vocalization and Its Implications for the Evolution of Human Speech
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 9 Implication of the Human Musical Faculty for Evolution of Language
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World-View of Protolanguage Speakers as Inferred from Semantics of Sound Symbolic Words: A Case of Japanese Mimetics