The language void: The need for multimodality in primate communication research

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 919-924

  Slocombe, Katie E ^a   Waller, Bridget M ^b   Liebal, Katja ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Facial expression; Gesture; Language evolution; Multimodal communication; Primate communication; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE; RESEARCH WORK; THEORETICAL STUDY; VOCALIZATION;

PRIMATES;

EID: 79953325289     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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