Research Catalog

Title

Becoming human : from pointing gestures to syntax / Teresa Bejarano.

Author

Bejarano, Teresa.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2011.

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Description

xvii, 402 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 81

Uniform Title

Advances in consciousness research v. 81.

Subject

• Language acquisition
• Gesture
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
• Psycholinguistics
• Language
• Gestures
• Learning
• Models, Animal
• Language Development
• Psycholinguistics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Monkeys' mirror neurons -- Chimpanzees and the visual field of the conspecific -- The three modes of processing the eyes of others -- Pointing gestures -- Four-hand co-operative actions and children's interpersonal co-ordination games -- Saussurean parity and the perception of a radically not-own self -- About evocation -- Symbolic play : developments in the simulatory centre -- From symbolic play to linguistic symbol -- From the general exposition to the crucial requisite achieved by the protodeclarative -- Toward the original perception of false beliefs of others : the importance of the learned sign -- Between motor learning and the perception of beliefs of others : the crucial role of the protodeclarative -- From beliefs of others to communicative predication -- Revisiting Frege : how can a predication be at one and the same time true and not redundant? -- Communicative functions, Vygotskian 'pure predicate' and conceptual semantics : various questions about predication -- Connecting with the concepts of theme (or topic) and rheme (or comment) -- Meaning and the different types of link -- Expressive speech and syntactic links : a phyothesis on the historic origins of those links, and on some other questions, along the way -- Historical grammaicalisation : the answers are lacking, but the questions are good -- Interrogative communication -- Toward complex syntax : the crucial role of reported speech.

ISBN

• 9789027252173 (alk. paper)
• 9027252173 (alk. paper)
• 9789027286796 (eb)
• 9027286795 (eb)

LCCN

^^2011009711

OCLC

• 706804055
• SCSB-11491823

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library