Evolution of communicative flexibility : complexity, creativity, and adaptability in human and animal communication / edited by D Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Signal and functional flexibility in the emergence of communication systems: the editors' introduction / D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel -- Evolutionary forces favoring communicative flexibility / Ulrike Griebel and D. Kimbrough Oller -- Vocal learning in mammals with special emphasis on pinnipeds / Ronald J. Schusterman -- Contextually flexible communication in nonhuman primates / Charles T. Snowdon -- Constraints in primate vocal production / Kurt Hammerschmidt and Julia Fischer -- Contextual sensitivity and bird song: a basis for social life / Martine Hausberger [and others] -- Contextual flexibility in infant vocal development and the earliest steps in the evolution of language / D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel -- Scaffolds for babbling innateness and learning in the emergence of contex[t]ually flexible vocal production in human infants / Michael J. Owren and Michael H. Goldstein -- Cognitive precursors to language / Brian MacWhinney -- Language and niche construction / Kim Sterelny-- How apes use gestures: the issue of flexibility / Josep Call -- The role of play in the evolution and ontogeny of contextually flexible communication / Stan Kuczaj and Radhika Makecha -- Detection and estimation of complexity and contextual flexibility in nonhuman animal communication / Brenda McCowan [and others] -- The evolution of flexibility in bird song / Robert F. Lachlan -- Development and evolution of speech sound categories principles and models / Gert Westermann.

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Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language.

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