The evolution of communication: Humans may be exceptional

Interaction Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 78-99

  Scott Phillips, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coercion; Communication; Cues; Embodied communication game; Emergence; Evolution; Intentionality; Interaction; Response; Signal

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949296036     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.11.1.07sco     Document Type: Article

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