2014Behavioral and Brain SciencesRequires access

Very young infants' responses to human and nonhuman primate vocalizations

Brock Ferguson, Danielle Perszyk, Sandra R. Waxman

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Abstract

Recent evidence from very young human infants' responses to human and nonhuman primate vocalizations offers new insights - and brings new questions - to the forefront for those who seek to integrate primate-general and human-specific mechanisms of acoustic communication with theories of language acquisition.

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Recent evidence from very young human infants' responses to human and nonhuman primate vocalizations offers new insights - and brings new questions - to the forefront for those who seek to integrate primate-general and human-specific mechanisms of acoustic communication with theories of language acquisition.

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Recent evidence from very young human infants' responses to human and nonhuman primate vocalizations offers new insights - and brings new questions - to the forefront for those who seek to integrate primate-general and human-specific mechanisms of acoustic communication with theories of language acquisition.

Key concepts: Nonhuman primate, Primate, Non human primate, Psychology, Non-human, Human language, Communication, Cognitive science

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